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Why Trump’s Chaos Is Hurting America’s Future | Brodie Kern DSH #1259
Sun, 23 Mar 2025
"Why Trump’s Chaos Is Hurting America’s Future" – Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour Podcast as he and guest Brodie unpack the turbulent effects of Trump's presidency on America’s trajectory. 🇺🇸 From dismantling government agencies to pardoning January 6 rioters, misinformation on social media, and the rise of Christian nationalism, this episode dives deep into the chaos and its consequences. 💥 Brodie shares passionate insights on controversial policies, shocking economic decisions, and the global ripple effects of Trump’s actions—all while calling for accountability and critical thinking in today’s political climate. 🗣️✨ This episode is packed with valuable insights you won’t want to miss. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Let us know your thoughts in the comments—join the conversation today! 🗨️🎙️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Brodie’s Concerns with Trump Administration 04:14 - Elon Musk’s Corruption 10:28 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) 16:12 - Elon Musk's Diablo 4 Skills 18:17 - Project 2025 Overview 20:09 - Christian Nationalism Discussion 22:40 - Assessing the Current Situation 27:29 - Economic Indicators and Trends 32:55 - The Democratic Party Analysis 35:00 - Organizing the Left 37:18 - Israel's Political Landscape 40:20 - Ukraine Conflict Insights 49:16 - IRS Overview and Implications 50:30 - Taxing the Wealthy Debate 51:48 - RFK Jr. Discussion 54:04 - COVID Vaccine Insights 55:49 - Understanding White Privilege APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Brodie Kern https://www.instagram.com/brodiekern SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #news #trump #departmentofeducation #donaldtrump #msnbc
Chapter 1: What concerns does Brodie Kern have about the Trump administration?
Yeah, so realistically right now, I'm super worried about how the Trump administration is handling things. Like it's been absolute chaos, like total shock and awe. They're literally just dismantling so many things at once. And there's a lot of concerns that I have, right? Number one, I'm concerned about about the fact that they're dismantling so many government agencies.
Number two, I'm concerned about, like, where they're putting their focus, right? It's like, all I see Trump doing is literally just, like, playing, like, a big dick contest with Canada... and a ton of other places and changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico, trying to call Canada the 51st state, saying we're taking Greenland. And it's like, dude, like, where is your head at?
Like, get it in the fucking game. We have actual issues to focus on, and it is not the name of the Gulf of Mexico, right? Like, that is a huge issue. And then kind of a more, like... sinister concern that I have is a lot of the Christian nationalist undertones that are coming up.
And like a lot of this shock and awe stuff that he's doing and like these executive orders that he's signing, he knows he's not going to be able to push through Congress. He knows they're going to fight back. And so it's like it comes off as a diversion for like some other play that he's making. And that concerns me because I don't know what that is yet.
Yeah. Which executive orders specifically concern you, I guess?
Well, you look at a ton of the stuff that he's done. I mean, one of the big, like, one of the biggest executive orders that Trump has signed that I had a problem with was pardoning all the January 6th rioters, right? And it's like, dude, these were legitimate criminals. The January 6th ordeal was not something to be taken lightly.
You literally had your supporters breaking into the Capitol, hurting cops, storming all sorts of government buildings. It's a fucking issue. Like, objectively, that should never be happening. And it's getting justified. And you look at what's happened after all of those people got pardoned. Dude, tons of them are getting arrested for violent crimes, DUIs.
They're just flat out fucking scumbag criminals. And he pardoned all of them, cop killers. It's such a big issue. And the right literally brushes it under the rug like it's no big deal. And I'm like, guys, these are criminals. And he just pardoned all of them, not some of them. He didn't even bother looking at, hey, maybe there was a portion of them
that were just like they're protesting and like not that, you know, maybe it wasn't that big of an offense, right? Let's actually look at it. No, just flat out. They're all good to go. And we're seeing the impacts of that. They literally came right back out and started committing crimes because guess what? That's what fucking criminals do.
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Chapter 2: Why is Elon Musk's influence considered controversial?
the country functions i mean we had social security medicare free lunches all on pause because they just shut everything down and like he's treating it like a company which like in some ways you can do but in some ways you have to be way more careful and work from within the system because people's lives are at stake like dude i grew up on free lunches imagine it for a week or a week and a half or whatever it was i went to school and they were like you can't have lunch
That is fucked. That's fucked up, right? And that's a minor example. When you look at Social Security and Medicare, that's people's health. It's how they pay their bills. And he's like, sorry, we made a mistake. It's like, dude, you can't be that reckless with... the funds that people need, right? And it's not a company that you can just strip down and break down for parts and rebuild it, right?
Like this is a humanitarian problem that you are committing. And that really fucking rubs me the wrong way. It is hurting the lives of so many people and it's just recklessness. And because they take that position, that does not mean that I oppose assessing government efficiency, right? I think that that's a good idea.
But just because you have a good idea doesn't mean that you can't take the wrong way to try to reach that idea or goal. And this is the absolute worst way to get it done.
The social security stats you posted, if those numbers are true, that is concerning.
Here's the thing about the numbers that they report. Let me set that clip over. So here's the thing about the numbers that Doge is reporting. Time and time again, he has been caught way over reporting numbers. He literally, I can't remember what it was, but he reported one of their findings as $9 billion, and it ended up being $9 million. Wow. And he was like, sorry, it made like an error.
He's like, we're going to make mistakes. And it's like, dude, the biggest problem with Elon is that he doesn't understand the severity of putting out misinformation to the platform of fucking 50 million people or whatever he has. That is a problem because people take that information and we've talked about this before. And they believe it.
And they think, you know what, the government's wasting fucking $10 billion on condoms for fucking Gaza or whatever they said it was. You know what I mean? And it's just like, dude, this is not the case. And then Trump comes in and he's like, Doge is finding so much fraud. He's finding, they're finding some inefficiencies.
They're over-reporting what those inefficiencies are, and there hasn't been any actual fraud found. And so none of them are careful with the words that they use, and they don't care about the consequence of platforming misinformation. That is a huge fucking problem. It creates hysteria in the public. It creates divide in the American people.
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Chapter 3: What is Project 2025 and why is it alarming?
Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. We'll have to find those metrics and throw them up on screen. Yeah, like, dude, like...
Look, right now, Trump is crushing the economy. Every single thing that he's doing has been pushing it further and further down. Like, look, we love crypto. This is supposed to be bull market time right now. We're supposed to be banging right now, making money right now. And the thing's getting fucking suffocated. Why?
Because there is global uncertainty with what wild move Trump is going to take. And the thing is, too, he's not just hurting the economy. He's letting his buddies fucking rip the bag out of everyday Americans. Right. Like, OK, he used tariffs as a threat to Canada and Mexico. What happened that day and the next day? Market drops 30 percent.
You think his fucking billionaire friends didn't clean house on that? You know they did. You know they did, and they just ripped money out of everyday Americans' hands. That is a huge fucking problem. Not only is he hurting the economy, but he's giving the money to his fucking homies.
I wasn't a fan of the Trump coin.
Dude, the Trump coin was an absolute debacle. I can't even believe that happened, dude. Like, look, we exist in a space. We see shit coins get pumped. People get rug pulled. We're pretty desensitized to it, right? We know that happens. It's wrong, whatever.
But the president of the United States launched a coin and fucking pumped it hard, harder than any of these other shit coins have ever gone because of who he is. And it got rug pulled. The thing fucking tanked. I saw so many videos of Trump voters being like, I lost my entire fucking life savings on this because I believed in Donald Trump and where he was taking that.
That is fucked up because I'm never justifying like shit coins being built and, you know, rugs being pulled. But the reality is when it happens around like... our community, we all know the game that we're playing. We're all completely aware of the fact that this shit's sketchy, and there's a probability of us getting fucking tanked and it going to zero.
When you do it to the American public, you have people entering crypto for the first time ever, which is a dangerous space. And on the shitcoin space, memecoin space, which is even worse, and you know this, and then you just fucking yank it from all of them. Those people were not equipped to make that decision. But because they trusted Trump, because Trump is the fucking hero right now,
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Chapter 4: How does Christian nationalism affect American politics?
Yeah, and so, look, I... I have a problem with like how Trump has been launching Trump coin, his merch, the fucking physical coins that he sold, even how he does events at Mar-a-Lago. Because it's like, look, as a marketer, on one hand, I can expect being scrappy and taking a grassroots approach to raising funds. Like the guy knows how to fucking market and sell like cool in a business vacuum.
Sick. Right. But when you have the president of the United States with as much influence as he has doing it. There's a conflict of interest there. There's a problem, right? And the right will be super quick to justify that type of behavior, right? But then they will literally shit on every politician that has made a bunch of money.
And so would I through insider trading and whatever, Nancy Pelosi, her husband, like a bunch of them, right? But the reality is Trump is doing the same type of thing. Not that that is as bad as insider trading, but he's definitely letting his fucking boys rip cash on insider trading when he's fucking throwing tariffs at Canada and Mexico. And so it's like, you can't have it both ways.
If you want to criticize unethical behavior, you have to do it to your fucking daddy as well. Like, you have to do it. Otherwise, you literally do not qualify to speak on any of this. If you have zero intellectual integrity and you will literally be a fucking hypocrite in how you think about things, get fucked. Like, you have no place actually... participating in political discourse.
I'm so done with it. Like, I'm so tired of seeing what I do on social media, seeing what I do out in public, people talking about this shit. Like, if you're not going to take the time to fucking learn, don't show up. It's ridiculous, dude. It's like, would you ever show up to a fucking sporting event to play a game when you've never played it in your life?
No, but because it's politics, people will do it. And they also think that we should fucking respect people's political beliefs for the sake of respecting their political beliefs. And I do not agree with that anymore. It's a nice fucking idea, but the American political system has turned into a place where the ideas on the right are morally reprehensible and they cost people their lives.
And I am now no longer willing to grant that we should fucking respect someone's beliefs for the sake of doing so. Your beliefs are fucked and they cause problems and they hurt people. And there's absolutely no reason that I should respect that. Yeah. The only thing that I'm going to do is attack that. The only thing I'm going to do is stand up for people who cannot stand up for themselves.
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Chapter 5: What are the impacts of Trump's policies on diversity and inclusion?
It's ridiculous. I'm fucking tired.
I think the Democratic Party needs that right now because it doesn't seem like you guys have figureheads.
No, dude, there is a huge problem with the Democratic Party right now, and there's a huge reason that they lost the election. And that problem is, number one, there are very few fucking warriors. Like, some of the only warriors you have in Congress... And in the actual government, AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, they're beasts. They will go hard, but they're the only ones.
We're talking about hundreds of people who could be going as hard as they do. And then in the independent media space, you've got a bunch of great people, Destiny, David Pakman, Kyle Kalinske from Secular Talk, Cenk Uygur and TYT. They've been a little off lately, but you've got a lot of great people there, but they're not organized the way that the right is. One of the reasons that Trump won
The election is because after he lost 2020, guess what? Tons of money poured into the Daily Wire. They got so organized, so focused. And Ben Shapiro started platforming tons of right-wing people. You look at the top podcasts in the world, dude, like six or seven of the top 25 podcasts are coming out of the Daily Wire. They are literally a fucking machine. And the left doesn't have that.
They need that independent media. They need that organization. They need to get on the same fucking page and they need to stop fighting with each other. Right. Like part of the problem with the left is you've got like some really far left stuff that's like pretty wacky and just like it's like.
like fine if you want to like respect what people are doing and like even fight for like what they want to do like I love that right but like you guys just can't fight with each other you're like the extreme far left is impossible to please right like the the most pragmatic place to sit on the political spectrum is slightly left of center yeah like if that is the most pragmatic place to sit
And the Democratic Party itself has to stop fighting. They have to get organized and they need more fucking warriors. Like if there were more AOCs, Elizabeth Warrens and Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party, they would be doing a lot better. And then on the independent media side, if there were more fucking destinies out there, we would be doing way better.
And that's why I've started speaking up because I'm like, I don't know who else is going to fucking do this. Like I spend time researching this shit all the fuck every night for the last fucking two years because I've been concerned for like the world that my two sons are growing up in. Thank you.
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