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Tariffs With Sunshine
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Tariffs With Sunshine

WRP #118

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I bring on Half-Asian Correspondent

to discuss the tariff situation.


Topics include:

  • How is Sunshine dealing with being back in America?

  • Is America a third world country with money?

  • Sunshine summarizes the current tariff situation

  • What was the logic of Trump’s tariff policy?

  • Should we actually miss Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus?

  • Walt gives his take on

    ’s criticism of the modern right’s lack of consistent epistemic anchoring

  • Is Trump the second coming of Warren Harding?

  • Could Vivek win the GOP primary in 2028?

  • Has Sunshine become Hananiapilled?

  • If the tariff fail with this show the structural failure of populism?

  • Why Sunshine blames libertarianism for the excesses of Trumpism

  • Walter defends fractional reserve banking

  • The modern Right and Left as barbarism vs. decadence

  • Sunshine argues for the return of smoke filled room primaries

  • Iowa being the first state promotes purity spiraling

  • The parallels between Trump 2.0 and Nixon

  • Walt argues JFK looked like a lesbian

  • Was Nixon incel-coded?

  • Walt asks Sunshine’s take on his article mapping Pokémon types to ethnicites

  • Walt and Sunshine debate whether we should move the capital

  • Why Trump inspires less anti-Americanism than Bush

  • Why Sunshine thinks Walt’s ethnic essentialism is LARPy

  • Walt is mad that Jewish girls won’t call him “goy”

  • It’s annoying when people don’t act like stereotypes

  • Walt asks Sunshine to map ethnicities to Dinosaurs

  • How to make whiteness aspirational

  • Sunshine gives his forecast for the racial composition of America

  • Walt asks Sunshine if he’s compared his vertical peripheral vision with wypipo

  • Why Asians all brag about having big eyes for Asians

  • Walt argues that Ireland and England are materially culturally different

  • Why Sunshine sides with Napoleon

  • Is there more of a pan-Asian identity on the West Coast?

  • China and Vietnam are moving closer because of the trade war

  • Sunshine explains why the tariffs are so incoherent

  • Could AOC become an American Chavez?

  • Why AOC and Kamala are the two nonwhite women Walt thinks are hot

  • The video of AOC being called a big booty latina

  • What do Korean men get in exchange for conscription?

  • Sunshine explains how Korea is like America in the 2000s

  • Why Japan is much more polite than Korea

  • Why Japan is better at accepting immigrants than Korea

  • Wouldn’t it be awesome to be Kim Jong Un?

  • Read Sunshine’s article on why Vietnam didn’t become a US ally after the war

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