WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.680 This isn't an important thing, but it's a thing that 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.759 annoys me. And that's a nice thing about having a 3 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:07.480 radio show is that you can make it all about 4 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:10.759 your own personal grudges. So I highly recommend it to 5 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:16.000 all of you. The other day, I'm driving along and 6 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:21.640 I see combined in one bumper sticker, not really a 7 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:23.399 bumper sticker. I think it was more like a decal 8 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:26.879 because you wouldn't want to screw up the bumper on 9 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:34.039 a Tesla. It was on a Tesla. Now, I'm always 10 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:38.799 a little astonished how many people seem to have Tesla's, 11 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:44.600 just given I don't know average household incomes throughout the region. 12 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.799 And there's a little part of me, as a struggling 13 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:53.119 middle classer that sort of I'll admit it, experiences a 14 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.679 twinge of jealousy when I see when driving around, like 15 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.000 what am I not doing right? That I'm not affording this? 16 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:04.200 And I think I think it's partially because we're saving 17 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.200 a lot of money and we don't spend on you know, 18 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.519 we don't have I've got my mom's old beat up 19 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:15.680 car and another beat up truck that we use for 20 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.120 driving the kids around SUV so we don't have car payments, 21 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.480 and that's a good thing. Actually, it's probably in our 22 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.280 long term interest that I'm not trying to move money 23 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.200 around in such a way that I'm driving a Tesla 24 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:38.599 with a fairly middle class income. Anyway, regardless, there's always something, 25 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:40.680 I mean, when you're driving around in a seventy thousand 26 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.359 dollars car, you're obviously making a little bit of a statement. 27 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:45.079 It's a little bit of a power move. It's a 28 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.799 little bit of a hey, check me out. I'm the 29 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:51.040 kind of guy who can drive a Tesla. It's a 30 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:56.159 it's a digmy move. And this was a bright red 31 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.519 Tesla or no, no, it was this one. I saw 32 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.599 another one online that I think that was bright red. Anyway, 33 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.400 See this Tesla driving around and the decal on the 34 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:18.319 back of it says muck Elon Fusk, so clearly trying 35 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.719 to say the F word towards Elon Musk, but trying 36 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:23.400 to do so in a sort of cute sea way 37 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:26.479 where you don't actually have the F word on the 38 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:31.479 back of your car. And this filled me with rage 39 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.599 for some reason, the little petty grievances of our every 40 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:41.080 day that sometimes I just feel need to have release gosh, 41 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:46.599 it was so obnoxious to me. And I've seen this before. 42 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.879 Today I stumbled across this a Twitter post from some 43 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:57.199 random dufus with a red Tesla bright red Tesla candy 44 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:03.039 Apple red with a similar decal because you know, they 45 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.159 don't want to mess up. They're seventy thousand dollars car 46 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.599 that says bought it before we knew how awful he is. 47 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:22.479 In reference to Elon Musk, all right, let's begin this rant. 48 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.000 I'm not some great defender of Elon Musk. I don't 49 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.759 think he's the greatest human being in the world. There's 50 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:35.879 a decent segment of people on the right who seemingly 51 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.840 like they sort of try to make their job praising 52 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:44.599 Elon Musk, hoping that maybe Elon Musk will notice them 53 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:48.080 or something like that. I see these people on Twitter 54 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:54.319 who basically seem to tweet all the time at Elon Musk, 55 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.479 reply to Elon Musks tweets, try to stay in his orbit, 56 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.919 talk about how wonderful Elon Musk is. Blah blah, Oh, 57 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.159 Elon Musk is doing so much to promote freedom of speech. 58 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.280 Elon Musk is so amazing. Tesla is such an amazing company, oh, oh, 59 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:11.639 Starlink is so amazing, his various space rocket you know companies, 60 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.400 whatever space acts whatever, so wonderful, blah blah blah blah 61 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.360 blah blah blah blah blah. And I find a lot 62 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:20.319 of that kind of sickening. I don't know if these 63 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:24.040 people think that the you know being, because Musk is 64 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:27.480 in fact very active on Twitter, given that he bought 65 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:32.680 the thing, maybe they think that somehow remaining within his 66 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:37.519 orbit will allow them to, I don't know, somehow get 67 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:39.800 him to invest in them, or promote them, or somehow 68 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:41.399 they can make money off of him. I'm not sure 69 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.040 exactly what it is, but there seems to be this 70 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:48.720 little Twitter ecosystem surrounding Elon Musk, which I find sort 71 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:56.680 of Yeah, Musk is himself, I would say a moderate Republican. 72 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.480 He was probably a moderate Democrat ten years ago, and 73 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:07.480 today he's a moderate Republican. I don't think he's a 74 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:11.720 pro life necessarily, I've certainly not really seen any evidence 75 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:16.439 of that. He seems to be moving towards a very 76 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:25.240 moderate boomer version of sort of soft right wing politics, 77 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.120 where the Trump era is sort of perfect for him. 78 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.319 I think Trump is sort of moderated things. When it 79 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:36.079 comes to social conservatism, you can say that's good, or 80 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.519 like me, you can say that's bad. Musk is very 81 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.920 honestly The Republican Party platform that I was so vigorously 82 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.040 criticizing seems like it could have been written by Elon Musk. 83 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.399 And Musk is a big time Trump donor at this point, 84 00:05:54.199 --> 00:06:00.600 he's a big Trump backer. So but again, his actual 85 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:10.040 politics are pretty darn moderate. And he's a very smart guy, 86 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:14.560 obviously far smarter than I am in a lot of respects, 87 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:21.000 as far as you know, engineering and computer programming and 88 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:22.600 all the kinds of things that he's been able to 89 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:24.279 accomplish that I have not. So I'm not here to 90 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.319 say he's an idiot or something. But he's not like 91 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:31.120 some right wing juggernaut, Nor do I think he's thought 92 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:38.360 super deeply about a lot of conservative policy issues. Basically 93 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.480 long and short. When it comes to politics, Elon Musk 94 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:45.959 is a fairly unremarkable figure. The fact that he bought 95 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:51.120 Twitter and applied his very moderate right wing sensibilities to 96 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:53.879 it as far as content and what kinds of content 97 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:57.399 it would or would not allow, you know, as opposed 98 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:00.399 to the prior Twitter regime which was completely bought sold 99 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.800 by the left and was willing to censor you know, 100 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:05.839 the Hunter Biden laptop story and all kinds of other 101 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:11.680 COVID misinformation so called. All that kind of stuff, I 102 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.439 think is a breath of fresh air, and it's kind 103 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:19.399 of an important thing for the American media landscape that 104 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.680 Twitter is still the go to social media app for 105 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:29.480 journalism and for news and messaging. You know, when President 106 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.560 Biden announced that he was dropping out of the presidential race, 107 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.680 he did so with a Twitter post. It wasn't with 108 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.439 a normal White House press release. It wasn't through a 109 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.720 press release coordinated to be sent to the news networks. 110 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:50.439 It was through a tweet. But basically, because Musk crossed 111 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:57.040 the left on like three things, three or four things, 112 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:04.839 the left basically communicated him. They basically said, he's persona 113 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:09.199 on Grada. We have nothing to do with him. Horrible evil. 114 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:17.160 He crossed them on like three issues, and sometime around 115 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:25.360 like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty or so, Musk became Musk 116 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:30.839 was put into the category of for the left sort 117 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:35.320 of canceled if he will uh, he was persona on Grada. 118 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:41.720 He was outside of the realm of acceptable people to 119 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:47.320 liberals within polite liberal society, where if you say you 120 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:52.000 like him, it is cringe cringeworthy, and you are a 121 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:58.200 bad person for mainstream left if you like him, and 122 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:00.679 he is bad and you are bad if you like him. 123 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:06.759 But this put liberals into a pickle. This change was 124 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:12.039 happening kind of in twenty nineteen twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, 125 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:17.919 and by that time Musk and Tesla, his car company, 126 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:25.960 had come to dominate the American electric car market. It's 127 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.159 the single biggest it's still like the biggest company for 128 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:33.200 producing electric cars. They produce way more electric vehicles than 129 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.159 GM and Ford and et cetera. I mean, it's and 130 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:42.039 they've been sort of a real leader technologically and advancing 131 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:50.960 zero emissions electric automobiles. Now, this leads me to part 132 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:53.200 of what I don't really love about Musk is that 133 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:56.039 I think he's made his empire basically on the back 134 00:09:56.159 --> 00:10:03.159 of federal and state subsidies for vironmental stuff, and he's 135 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.840 been able to really leverage that. But it is bizarre 136 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.320 how all of a sudden, the Biden administration comes in 137 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:12.919 and Musk talks about this all the time, How the 138 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:17.799 Biden administration officials who were promoting electric vehicles and zero 139 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:20.879 emissions and all all that stuff with the EPA. This 140 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:25.200 Biden team is staffed with these doctrinaire, young millennial liberals 141 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:29.440 who've imbibed this sense that Elon Musk is bad. Elon 142 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:31.559 Musk is bad, and he should be shoved out and 143 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.919 he should be cast into the outer darkness where there 144 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:37.080 is wailing and gnashing of teeth. So Musk has talked 145 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.919 a lot about some kind of like electric car summit 146 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:44.360 that the White House convened early during the Biden days, 147 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.200 where they did not invite Musk and they did not 148 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:54.240 invite Tesla, and Musk still fumes about it, and he's 149 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.720 obviously correct. I mean, it's insane, like why would he 150 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:00.840 And you know, Biden was talking talking about how Ford 151 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.279 is a true leader in electric cars, and Musk made 152 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.159 the point that you know, Ford had sold like not 153 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:13.039 even a tenth as many electric vehicles as Tesla had sold. 154 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:17.840 Obviously it's insane, and obviously it was motivated by petty 155 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:25.200 political distaste for Musk. So as a result, you have 156 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:32.360 all these sort of liberals and this is obviously liberals 157 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:37.320 with money, like this is left wing people with enough 158 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:41.720 money to buy a Tesla, or I guess maybe just 159 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.039 lease a Tesla. Whatever, you have to have some money 160 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.639 to be driving around in a Tesla. All these liberal 161 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:53.639 people who clearly like Tesla's They like the car, they 162 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:56.480 like how it drives, they like the fact that they're 163 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.039 driving a zero missions car, and they can say, ah, 164 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.320 look at me, I'm driving a zero emissions car. Aren't 165 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.039 I hip and cool and progressive? You know. Let's ignore, 166 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.200 by the way, the sort of deeper questions about whether 167 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:12.000 Tesla cars, whether electric cars are actually better for the environment, 168 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:16.240 whether it actually costs more as far as far as 169 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.360 fossil fuel output to make a Tesla over and against 170 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:25.240 a normal gas powered car, or whether are we just offsetting? 171 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.080 Are are we just kind of shifting the environmental harms 172 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:33.120 from America to Africa to the countries in Africa where 173 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.000 we have to mine for rare earth minerals. For the batteries, 174 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.440 what do we do with the batteries when they're done? 175 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.759 How bad is it when you crash a Tesla and 176 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.440 the engine explodes and it's a forty hour long fire. 177 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:48.879 It's at fire that takes forty hours to put out. Anyway, 178 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.960 I'm not actually one hundred percent convinced that if you 179 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.000 buy a Tesla, you're actually doing something that's net positive 180 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.120 for the environment. You're also I mean, where do you 181 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.240 think electricity comes from? Has to come from somewhere. In 182 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:07.000 many states, it's coming from burning fossil fuels. So your 183 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.320 Tesla has a positive I've seen surveys of this that 184 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.200 your Tesla can have a more positive environmental impact if 185 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:17.639 you live in Oregon or Washington State, for example, where 186 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:21.320 most of their power is from hydro power. If that's 187 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:25.559 powering your Tesla, then its impact on emissions is going 188 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:28.559 to be better than if you live in Oklahoma. If 189 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.039 you live in Oklahoma, you're getting your power from coal 190 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.399 and oil, you know, natural gas and stuff like that. 191 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.120 Your net environment you'd have to drive the Tesla for 192 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:39.399 thirty years before you sort of net out to have 193 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:47.679 a positive environmental impact. But in short, I guess the 194 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:52.720 thing I just can't stand. And again this is prompted 195 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.480 by people I see driving around in tesla's but with 196 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.399 decals letting you know that they don't like Elon Musk. 197 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.879 I bought it before I knew how awful he is. 198 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:10.279 Muck Elon Fusk. The two of these decals I've seen 199 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:17.559 for people driving around. You know, I don't understand how 200 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.480 people have the gall to drive around with a decal 201 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.759 like that. You're the one who's invested seventy or eighty 202 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:29.039 thousand dollars in this man, not me, Okay, I have 203 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:33.799 no grand desire to protect Elon Musk. I think him 204 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:37.720 buying Twitter is a good thing. That's the extent to 205 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.559 which I'm going to sing Elon Musk's praises. That's it. 206 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.039 He's a moderate Republican, and I think it was a 207 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:51.000 good thing for press freedom that he bought Twitter, that 208 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.360 basically we won't have the kind of censorship of our 209 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:57.240 news that we saw during twenty twenty. That's the extent 210 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:04.559 of my praise of him. The idea that this man 211 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:08.080 is so evil that you have so One you want 212 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:13.039 the benefit of driving a fancy schmancy luxury car. Two, 213 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:17.799 you want the public prestige benefit of people thinking you're 214 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:22.600 rich because you're driving around in a fancy schmancy car. 215 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:29.039 Three you have given this man, Elon Musk, about seventy 216 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:35.440 thousand dollars of your money, plus the free advertising of 217 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:44.200 driving around in his product. But four, you're so preachy. 218 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:51.200 You're so you're such a virtue signaler that you want 219 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.240 other people to know that Elon Musk is bad and 220 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.879 that you think he's bad in spite of the fact 221 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.080 that you are seventy thousand dollars invested in him. So 222 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.679 so you try to both sort of do a rationalization 223 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.159 of yourself but also preaching to other people. Hence you 224 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.159 put a decal on your car because you know you 225 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:12.960 don't want to put a bumper sticker on it's such 226 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:19.000 a nice, valuable car. You put a decal on your 227 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:22.039 car to let other people know that you don't like 228 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.120 Elon Musk. Boy, I wish people didn't like me that way. 229 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.679 I wish people's form of expressing that they don't like 230 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.360 John Girardi is by giving me seventy thousand dollars and 231 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.000 running around doing advertising for the John Girardi Show, but 232 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:39.600 with a decal on their shirt that says I don't 233 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:43.840 like John Girardi. I'm sure Elon is using the seventy 234 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:48.720 thousand dollars that someone paid for their Tesla and wiping 235 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.600 the tears from his eyes to know that these people 236 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:57.679 driving around in tesla's with decals that say bought it 237 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.720 before we knew how awful he is. You know, I'm 238 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.879 sure he's using all seventy thousand dollars of their money 239 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:09.039 to wipe the tears from his eyes. When don't we 240 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:14.920 return more about left wing preachiness and yard sininess and 241 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:16.799 how I feel like a lot of this has really 242 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:18.559 flipped in the last twenty years. That's next on the 243 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:23.319 right on the John Girardi Show. I don't know why 244 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:29.160 I get so infuriated with these. Elon Musk is terrible 245 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.240 bumper stickers and decals which I only see on the 246 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.359 back of Tesla's. I've now seen multiple of these where 247 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.880 people are driving around in Tesla's and they've got a 248 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:44.559 bumper sticker on decrying Elon Musk and saying what a 249 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:52.480 terrible person Elon Musk is while driving a car that 250 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.200 you gave him or his company seventy thousand dollars to buy, 251 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:02.759 and while still advertising for that car by driving it 252 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:07.720 around every day. It drives me insane. And it's like, 253 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:14.240 what level of preachiness and self obsession and self rationalization 254 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.160 do you have to be at to do that? Like again, 255 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:23.160 you have to be like, okay, I really want to 256 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.880 drive a rich fancy expensive car. I don't want to 257 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:30.799 get rid of my rich, fancy expensive car because I 258 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:32.839 like it so much, or I invested too much into 259 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:36.039 it or whatever. Although for some of these people, I 260 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:39.400 presume they could, you know, get rid of it and 261 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.759 you know, take the financial hit. I don't want to 262 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:43.920 take that much of a financial hit on this tesla 263 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:46.880 I just bought anyway. So you want to keep driving 264 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:52.000 your rich, fancy expensive car, or to virtue signal about 265 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:55.200 how you care for the environment because it's a Tesla, 266 00:18:55.440 --> 00:19:01.240 so you know, zero emissions. You want all of those benefits. 267 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:08.039 But you also want to be preachy to people about 268 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.440 the three opinions Elon Musk has that make him socially 269 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:17.480 unacceptable to lefties, about how Elon Musk is bad. So 270 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:21.759 you want to be preachy. And it's also though you're 271 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.920 trying to be preachy in a way that's self rationalizing 272 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.720 and self justifying. I guess to your liberal friends or 273 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:32.079 to your co fellow liberals out there, who might see 274 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.799 you driving around in a Tesla and think, well, that 275 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:37.079 guy's a phony liberal. Here he is giving Elon Musk 276 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.640 ony thousand bucks and driving around in his fancy, rich 277 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.200 person car. So you have to signal to those people 278 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:44.839 who you think might be judging you. No, no, no, 279 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:51.839 I'm one of the good ones. It's so annoying, and 280 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:56.960 I feel like there's this level of preachiness among especially 281 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:59.359 I think, I really think it was the Obama era 282 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:04.119 that did this, because the people who were in college 283 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.720 during Obama are now like my age, they're entering their 284 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:10.599 late thirties early forties, are now becoming partners at law firms, 285 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:14.599 are now becoming managers and directors and businesses. If you 286 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:22.799 were in college during two thousand and eight and you 287 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:26.799 liked Barack Obama and you got really into Barack Obama, 288 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:32.440 there was this level of moralizing preening that you engaged 289 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:36.640 in that made me want to push you off a cliff. 290 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.039 The Obama people, for those of you who were not 291 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:43.720 in college in two thousand and eight and were not 292 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:48.960 following politics, Okayama, the pro Obama people, the kids who 293 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:53.160 are like you know, in the college Democrats club during 294 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.000 two thousand and eight when Obama was rising, they were 295 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.680 the most obnoxious little pieces that, you know what, whoever 296 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:03.640 walked the face of the earth. And this preening moralizing 297 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:06.240 of the Obama era is what directly led to the 298 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:11.039 concept of quote cancel culture, where basically these people were 299 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:16.559 so obsessed with their self image as righteous, moral, good, upright, 300 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:22.400 upstanding Obama people, and Obama represented this moral center of 301 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:26.920 America blah blah blah, that basically they wound up shoving 302 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.599 it to the outer darkness anything that they thought was 303 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:37.039 too far contrary to Obama orthodoxy. And I really think 304 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:43.160 it's from those kinds of people, that specific crowd of 305 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:50.400 Obama era college students who are today instituting DEI regimes 306 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:53.799 and are DEI managers. All the millennial staffers between the 307 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.839 ages of about you know, thirty two to forty two 308 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:00.599 who are staffing the Biden who are really running the 309 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:06.920 Biden administration right now, these are the people who introduced 310 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:14.359 this level of moralistic preachiness to American politics that they 311 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.640 really replaced the religious right with the religious left. I 312 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:20.279 think the religious right is deader than a doornail at 313 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:25.039 this point, if it was ever very vigorous or alive. 314 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:31.599 I think the religious right is pretty much dead and 315 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:37.559 they've been and the moralizing left is very much vibrant 316 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:39.920 and alive. And that's where cancel culture comes from. It's 317 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:42.079 where the whole dee I regen comes from, where basically 318 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:46.000 they get this thing that they're very self conscious about 319 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:49.200 not wanting to say something that would make other people 320 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:52.400 critical of them. And it's this constant sort of looking 321 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:54.519 to the left, looking to the right, like, oh, did 322 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:57.480 I say something wrong? I did I say something cancellable? 323 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:02.000 Did I say something that was, you know, racially insensitive? 324 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:08.920 Did I say something that was culturally insensitive? Or And 325 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.559 because you don't want to be perceived as a bad person, 326 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.640 you then nail people who do say the bad thing 327 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:19.039 to such an extent to shove them into the outer darkness. 328 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:28.319 So that's where we get absurd displays, like someone driving 329 00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:32.920 around in a Tesla having given Elon Musk seventy thousand 330 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:36.079 bucks and a bunch of free advertising, but feeling the 331 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:38.880 need to put a bumper sticker on the back of 332 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:42.880 the car that says I don't like Elon Musk, as 333 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:46.319 if that will absolve you of your sins. It's like, 334 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:50.920 I have to be moralizing and preachy, but I don't 335 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:59.599 want to actually sacrifice the privileges attendant with my high income, 336 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:06.039 my status symbol, my nice card that I like that's cool, 337 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:12.000 all right. When we return, there's this big story out 338 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:15.839 of Georgia that Kamala Harris is trying to use to 339 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:17.839 promote abortion. We'll talk about it next on the John 340 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:22.400 Girardi Show. There are a couple of stories that Kamala 341 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:28.680 Harris is promoting that I think this politically maybe signal 342 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:33.240 that Harris is not doing so well. This stuff was 343 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:38.400 promoted by Pro Publica. Pro Publica is a super left 344 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:43.279 wing outlet that is funded by a lot of Democrat 345 00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:45.000 You know, if this was on the right, it would 346 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.359 be called dark money, but it's one of these nonprofit 347 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:50.920 entities that's really trying to promote various kinds of political 348 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:54.440 things but doing so without endorsing candidates. And there's a 349 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:55.559 lot of it on the left, there's a lot of 350 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:57.640 it on the right. Pro Publica is one of these 351 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.880 outlets that does this. There are two trying to attain 352 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:05.000 extremely left wing political ends, but they have the cover 353 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:10.920 of nonprofit status. Pro public has been behind the massive 354 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:18.000 push to delegitimize the Supreme Court by promoting bogus story 355 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.319 after bogus story after bogus story about Supreme Court justices 356 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:25.920 being corrupted. All the stories about Clarence Thomas, all the 357 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:30.359 stories about it's always the conservative members of the court 358 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:33.480 who we highlight for, you know, accepting trips or things 359 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:35.319 like that, all the same things that Ruth Bader Ginsburg 360 00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:37.240 did time and time again. But it wasn't bad when 361 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:39.680 she did it for some reason anyway. So Pro Publica 362 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:44.160 is a super left wing outlet, and because they're nonprofit 363 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:48.279 for some reason, the media winds up getting stories from 364 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.720 Pro Publica and then running with them, which would be 365 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:55.880 as silly as like, well, it would be as obviously 366 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.119 biased as if I at Right to Life of Central 367 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:02.960 California published a bunch of articles and expected the Fresno 368 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.039 Bee just to run with my with my writing, with 369 00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:10.519 my reporting, with my publishing. Obviously, I don't expect that 370 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:13.000 Rights Life of Central California is a really you know, 371 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:16.920 one sided when it comes to the abortion debate. I mean, 372 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.640 I guess I'm not expecting a neutral news out now. 373 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:23.559 If I expose something that's genuinely newsy, you know, maybe 374 00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:26.519 a media outlet should take it into consideration, But I 375 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.440 don't expect them to uncritically take my work and just 376 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:33.799 amplify it. That's basically what the media does with Pro 377 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.319 publica who is far more left wing than I'd say 378 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:40.680 Right to Life of Central California is right wing. Now, 379 00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:46.079 what's happened in Georgia is that two women have died 380 00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:50.319 from taking the abortion pill. Two women have died from 381 00:26:50.359 --> 00:26:57.319 taking the abortion pill, and the argument is being made 382 00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:04.240 that they died because of georgia law outlawing abortion, and 383 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:06.920 that that's evil and that it's Donald Trump's fault because 384 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:11.200 Donald Trump overturned rob Wade and Georgia passed. Georgie actually 385 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.440 had passed before the overturning of Roby Wade, a law 386 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:21.200 banning abortion after fetal heartbeat can be detected. Now, in 387 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:23.799 both of these cases, the thing that killed these women 388 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.599 was not Georgia's law. It was the abortion pills. Okay, 389 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:38.680 George's laws, in large part don't involve prosecuting women for abortions. 390 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:44.359 George's laws don't prevent doctors from doing follow up care 391 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:52.200 for a woman who's undergone an abortion pill procedure. But 392 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.200 these women basically got abortion pills through different means. One 393 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.079 woman got the abortion pills. To this thing that democrats 394 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:03.279 have been or people in the pro choice community have 395 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:07.039 been super supportive of which is basically California based companies 396 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:10.480 that ship abortion pills to states where abortion is illegal, 397 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:13.400 and they source their abortion pills from China and India. 398 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:17.759 You know, so you know they're super safe. Not they 399 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:19.720 don't know that they're super safe. There's there's some real 400 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:25.079 quality control questions that are left hanging here with instructions 401 00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:29.279