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Terror against Tesla. The party of defending democracy is firebombing an electric car company's dealerships because they disagree with the political views of its owner. That and Joe Biden wants back in. All that and more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up.
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Host (0:22)
I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God and I believe God intended for us to be free. Yesterday morning there were reports out of CNBC and others of incendiary devices at a Tesla dealership in Austin. This follows several weeks of insane events. Protests that have become violent outside of Tesla dealerships, viral videos of left wing protesters trying to force Tesla owners off the road to yell at them about their choice in vehicles. The party of democracy has shifted quite drastically to where they are now trying to destroy this electric car company. And I think it's been really crazy and troubling to watch, but a lot of it is tied to the cheerleading of Democrats like Tim Waltz saying on.
Co-Host (1:09)
My phone, I know some of you know this. On the iPhone they've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day. 225 and dropping.
Host (1:20)
I think it's important to note there that while Tim cheers for any kind of downturn in Tesla stock, his state has hundreds of millions of dollars of pension funds invested in Tesla. So of course, about a day or two later, he had to come back out and apologize.
Co-Host (1:35)
Said something I didn't, you know, probably shouldn't have about a company.
Host (1:41)
You'll remember from the campaign when Tim made several misstatements and tried to excuse them as a knucklehead. And in this case it is everyone else's fault that he accidentally cheered for the demise of his own pensioners funds in his state. But I think that this also really speaks to an interesting dynamic of the state of the climate change debate. You'll remember that President Biden focused nearly every dime of his political capital on trying to get more people to buy electric cars, whether it was through tax credits that predominantly went to wealthy people or just a number of deals that made it more enticing for people to invest in green technology. Only a few months out of office, we have the former vice presidential candidate for Democrats attacking one of the most successful electric vehicle companies in our nation's history. But we also have things like Mark Kelly, Elon Musk kind of turned out to be an I don't want to be driving a car built and designed by now. I will note, Mark Kelly just spent four years voting for those same tax credits to try and get more and more people into electric cars at the expense of gas powered cars like the Chevy Tahoe that he's moving into. He also supported the Democrat presidential candidate who called for banning gas powered vehicles. So I think it's really interesting to look at this and ask, were Democrats really focused on the changing climate, on lowering emissions, or was it just about power? What we've seen in the months since Joe Biden left office is so many of these giant funding programs were less about changing global temperatures and much more about creating slush funds to allow Democrats more political power and to give their nonprofit groups like Stacey Abrams, who received a $2 billion billion grant dealing with climate change, more power to then go out, register Democrats and do their political activities. As we talked about last episode following the money is so important here. Last week, President Trump announced an executive order to begin the process of shutting down the Department of Education. That is something he campaigned on, that is something that he ran on. And it's something that Republicans have been talking about really for decades, but that has been met with a flurry of lies and misinformation about what that's going to mean for the state of education in America. A cousin reached out to me who's preparing to become a teacher and said, what does this mean? It doesn't mean a whole lot, in large part because most of education is both funded and overseen at the state level. That was always the intention when the founders set up our country. It was also the plan when the Department of Education was set up that it would supplement and provide support, not play the controlling role that it's taken on. Now, when you look at the state of education in our country right now, only 24% of people have a positive view of the state of public education. A plurality of people disapprove of the role that the Department of Education is playing. Why? Probably because it has such a terrible return on investment. This is something that President Trump talked about. As we spend more and more money on education through our Department of Education, a quarter trillion dollar department, we're actually seeing test scores continue to drop. 60% of kids in America cannot read at grade level. And that's a huge problem. So as you see, both teachers, union officials and Democrats come out and say, President Trump is going to ruin education. You have to look at and consider the fact that education is already terrible and it's a disaster. So let's go through a couple of these one by one. First that we're not going to have funding for states for education. Let's look at that clip. The reality that they will not have arts and music, the reality that they will not have after school programs.