Back to episode — Episode 2837 CWSA 05/12/25
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it. I don't think they're going to give Trump half or even three-quarters. Well, I don't think they'll give him a quarter of what he wants. I think that they will just kick the can down the road, add to the budget deficit, and lead us toward doom. I don't know what's going to stop it, but they're pretending to have this markup session in which they're going to do a bunch of good things. It's all t…
← Previous segment →n you go to the Democrats and they're like, "Well, we oppose the oligarchs and we want to make sure that we keep habeas corpus for the MS-13 guys." Well, and everybody else. It's so lame. And then what about the chaos? If you were to ask the person in the street, where's the chaos happening? Now they might say Doge, but have you noticed that Elon Musk has quite cleverly removed himself from all political conversation? It used to be that every time I got on X there would be very political pro-Trump posts pretty much every day. But I think he's completely pulled himself out of politics and he's just doing Tesla-related posts and stuff and Tesla stock is way up based on the fact that he's focusing on the nuts and bolts, that he's getting out of politics. So that's good.
Meanwhile James Carville and company, they're trying to distance themselves from some comments made by Ilhan Omar. So I guess in 2018 she made some comments about white people and that video has reemerged. And I guess the comments were originally in an interview with Mehdi Hasan and Omar stated, I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country. And then Carville is trying to distance himself and say we need less of that and blah blah blah. And I'm thinking to myself, look at what Trump is talking about. Even if he doesn't get it done, he's talking about cutting your taxes and freeing hostages and ending wars and lowering pharma costs. That's what Trump's talking about, sealing the border. And Carville's talking about a 2018 video where somebody on his team was being a racist. That's the biggest difference you could even imagine between the two parties.
And but at least Ilhan Omar finally explained to me why people hide when I enter the room. I didn't realize I was that scary. But apparently as a white man I am one of the scariest people in the country. So that explains why people get under their tables and run away when I enter. I always wondered about that.
Here's some more bad news for Democrats. Apparently the House Judiciary Committee is going to interview Jack Smith's lead prosecutor who did the Mar-a-Lago box gate. You know, when Trump was accused of having all these boxes of stuff. And we've heard enough about that story to believe that there's something there. There's something sketchy there. It could be that it was being directed by the White House. It could be that it wasn't a purely legal problem. Could be that there were politics pushing it. So the lead prosecutor probably knows where all the bodies are buried on this story and will be under oath and we might find out some really interesting things about the Biden administration. Now I don't know for sure and if it's like everything else, nobody's going to go to jail. But it's going to be yet another bad news cycle for Democrats because there's nothing good that can come out of that story except for Republicans.
According to the Rasmussen poll, Trump's overall approval rating is 50% with likely voters. But here are some subcategories on that poll that are mind-blowing. He's got, according to Rasmussen, Hispanic support at 62% and Black at 39%. If those numbers are real — and I'm kind of skeptical about that — that would be just mind-blowing. You know, it could be real, but do you think Hispanic support for Trump is 62%? Now this would be likely voters so it wouldn't count any immigrant communities. Could be. I've been telling you for a while that if you didn't think that the Hispanics would back Trump, then you haven't been involved or you haven't had exposure to the Hispanic community. If you have exposure to the Hispanic community, no surprise at all. It's totally non-surprising if you've had any conversations with that group.
Speaking of Tesla, Tesla's robo taxi, which is where a Tesla with full self-driving can become a taxi, I guess it's called Project Alicorn. And this feature will quietly appear on Tesla's mobile app code. And so they're looking at a June rollout. So listen to this. Your car, if you had a Tesla and you wanted to have it double as a taxi, you could come home from work if your car is charged up I guess and just activate the app and park your car on the street and it would act like a robo taxi. So it would just take off from its parking space, go pick somebody up, deliver them to their location, and I guess go back and park where it was, and you can make ten to thirty thousand dollars a year just while your car is working for you.
Now apparently the initial fleet will launch in Austin with 10 to 20 cars, but it's going to scale up really fast. And here's some of the — I saw this was on a post. I guess the source was a user called G. Filch. Now I can't vouch for these numbers, but here's what one person estimated. So here's the math of it: if you look at Waymo, the competitor, they've got 1,500 robo taxis and they already generate 250 million in revenue. I
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guess that's per year, but that's not enough for Waymo to make money. I guess they have higher costs. And now if you were to look at Tesla, if they could get up to 100,000 robo taxis based on the likely charge that there would be for a ride, etc., they would make 2.9 billion in pure profit annually. And that's just the start. So the number of billions of dollars that these robo taxis could make, i…
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