Welcome it as Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you. Let's start with a victory, Senator, the Texas Bar Application has actually added a couple of questions that deal with free speech and incivility. This and wake of what happened at Stanford Law School, and this is because of a letter that you wrote. This is something that I would argue every state in America should be modeling after what the Texas Bar Application is doing with adding these basic questions.
Well, Ben, you're right, We've had a big victory in
the last week for free speech. Everyone who listens to Verdict was appalled, and we discussed at length what happened at Stanford Law School where Fifth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan went to give a speech on campus at Stanford Law School and a group of law students screamed him down, cursing, cursing, profanities, yelled were just they shouted him down and prevented him from speaking, and some of the explicit profanities they yelled at at him.
I've never in my life seen a federal judge treated the way these Stanford law students that did then, of course, the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion came in, and the judge understandably appealed to the dean to the administration for help enforcing Stanford's free speech policy, and the dean proceeded to side with the mob, decide with the people screaming down the judge, and she read from a
seven minute prepared lecture attacking the judge. In the wake of that, across the country, people were rightly horrified.
I did two things.
Number one, I wrote to the President of Stanford and the Dean of the Stanford Law School, calling on Stanford to fire the de and to discipline the students. And we ended up getting a meaningful victory in that regard. That dean is on leave. We don't know if she's ultimately gonna be fired, but astonishingly enough, Stanford stepped forward, condemned what the dean did, said it violated their policy, and put her on leave. That's a big deal. That is a victory. But then a second victory that I
think is even more significant. A month ago I sent a letter to the Texas State Bar and in particular to Chief Justice Nathan hect of the Texas Supreme Court. I know Chief Justice HEC very well. I've argued in front of the Texas Supreme Court and in front of Chief Justice HECT many many times. The letter I sent to the Texas Bar, I urged the bar to do something about it. Anyone who's a member of the bar, you have to take a bar exam in Texas. It's
three days long and it's extensive. It deals with knowledge of the law. Knowledge of the law generally knowledge of Texas law, in particular if you're going to be an attorney in the state of Texas. So, for example, there are questions on the Texas Bar about oil and gas law, which I suspect if you take the New York Bar you don't get questions about oil and gas law because
they don't actually let you drill for oil and gas. Well, in Texas you have to know at least something about it if you're going to be a member of the Texas Bar. But there is also you take an ethics exam, and there is also an element of every bar exam
which is character and fitness to practice law. And the notion is if you're going to be an attorney, if you're going to represent clients, if you're going to be able to go before court and represent clients, you have to have sound character, you have to be fit to
practice law. And so what I asked a month ago, if Chief Justice Hect, I'll read a paragraph from the letter I sent him, I would ask that the Texas Board of Bar Examiners, in discharging their duties of assessing the character and fitness of prospective bar applicants, take particular care with students who have graduate sduated from Stanford Law in class years twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, or
twenty twenty five. Specifically, I suggest that students graduating from those years be made to answer in writing whether they participated in the shameful harassment of Judge Duncan on March ninth, twenty twenty three. And then I went on to say, I would leave it to the considered judgment of the Texas Supreme Court in the Texas Board of Bar Examiners as to what the proper remedy should be for any
students who answer in the affirmative. Well, last week I got a letter back from Chief Justice Hect, and it is a terrific letter. Is a terrific response. Let me tell you what Chief Justice hec said, and I'm going to read it to you. Dear Senator Cruz, thank you for your letter of March sixteenth, twenty twenty three. I am, of course, very familiar with the disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan's invited presentation at Stanford Law School, as well as as I'm sorry to have to say similar occurrences at
Yale Law School. It goes on to say, I'm going to skip a little bit of it, but it goes on to say the Board has historically relied on law schools to report disciplinary matters that should be considered in determining an applicant's character and fitness for admission to the Texas Bar School. Reactions to recent violations of free speech
policies suggests that reliance is not justified. The Board is planning to add questions to the Bar Application to inquire of applicants directly concerning in civility and violations of school policies. Texas lawyers are expected to adhere to the Texas Lawyer's Creed, promising to treat Council, opposing parties, the court, and members of court staff with courtesy and civility. The admissions process should examine whether applicants could be expected to fulfill this problem.
Promise.
I gotta say, Ben, that's a big damn deal. If there are Stanford students in that room who were screaming and cursing and thinking that you can behave as a wholigan, as an Antifa rioter, and at the same time be admitted as a member of the bar, this has got to make them think twice. And I hope that other bars follow suit. The behavior of those students was utterly
unacceptable for anyone who wants to be a lawyer. And so I congratulate Chief Justice hect He did exactly the right thing, and this is meaningful in terms of a victory for free speech.
How many other states do you think could actually look at this and go, oh wow, we should do the exact same thing. There are a lot of states that have different universities, a lot of states that dealt with protests on college campuses. We see almost weekly now where conservative speakers are attacked and even assaulted, as we saw one conservative swimmer who was attacked just last week. We witnessed this happen, and there's got to be a higher standard.
As you said, for those practicing law that are going to be in our courts and not treating people this way. Do you believe that other states will look at this and say, what Texas just did? This was such a big victory for not just free speech, but free speech and decorum for everyone. This is saying it's unacceptable no matter who's doing it. How quickly do you think others could jump on board?
You know, I think it's likely that you will see other states follow suit. I think it is more likely in red states than blue states. So Florida is a natural place to think about that could follow suit, and Florida is a big deal. Look, Texas has thirty million people. We have nearly ten percent of the population of the United States. I guarantee you there are Stanford Law students who hoped and intended to practice law in the state of Texas. I don't know if any of them were
in that room harassing and screaming at Judge Duncan. There are other states. I mean, the states that would be most significant would be the California State Bar the New York State Bar, because you've got a ton of Stanford Law graduates planning to practice either in California or New York. I don't know if they would follow suit. I'm skeptical that they would given the overall politics of those two states.
But I will note Stanford Law School, to the astonishment of a lot of us, behaved a lot better than Yale Law School did. Stanford Law School, in particular, suspended the dean unequivocally condemned the behavior of the students and made clear that it violated their free speech policy. And let me be clear, just to engage with some of the trolls that will say, well, gosh, if you're punishing people for screaming and and shouting down a federal judge,
that's anti free speech. No, no, it's not. You have every right to engage in speech. Those students would have been perfectly justified to show up, to be outside with placards, to be making their views known. What you don't have a right to do is silence the speech of another That's what the Supreme Court is called a heckler's veto. You don't have the right to shout down and silence
another speaker. And part of it is you're violating not only the free speech rights of the speaker, you're violating the free speech rights of the other students who want to listen to that speaker, and so. Had the Stanford Law students stood outside and protest in a way that did not disrupt the event, that would have been entirely appropriate. But their objective was to use force to shout down and make the judge's speech impossible. That is directly antithetical
to free speech. I would note it is even worse when you were dealing with a federal appellate judge. So at Yale Law School, they did that to Kirsten Wagoner, who's an attorney who had argued and won a major case of the Supreme Court. That was bad, but it is qualitatively different to do so to a sitting federal appellate judge. I'll tell you this, I've been a member
of the bar for a couple of decades. Now, if you did what they did in that classroom, in any courtroom in America, you better have your toothbrush with you because you would be found in contempt. They would put handcuffs on you, and they would put you in jail. You don't get to speak to a judge that way, even if you don't like the judge even if you
disagree with the judge's ruling. Our system is based upon some modicum of civility, and sadly, those Stanford law students seem not to have learned that, to have learned the opposite with the encouragement of the Deidan. But kudos to the Texas State Bar for setting an exam sample an example that I hope other bars follow, and in particular, Florida should be the next bar to act because Florida. A lot of those students want to go to Florida too, and doing this will be a real deterrence to the
next time this is happening. If you're a law student, you're a lefty, you're a Marxist, you're gonna think twice about Well, wait a second, I'd like to be able to admit be admitted to the bar, so maybe I won't shout down a speaker who comes to campus.
Yeah, it's a big victory centator, like you said, and one that hopefully will go viral all over the country. I want to also ask you about another issue and.
Been part of the reason for emphasizing Florida. If I'm correct, there's an election happening next year with two candidates out of the state of Florida. You are correct, sir, So I just think it's a good opportunity. Texas is leading right now, Florida out alite as well.
I love it.
Great, great point there, and we'll see and keep everybody updated on as. Hopefully this is something that goes viral and is good for the entire country when there is rules, and also when you cannot intimidate federal judges this way, it holds lawyers to a high standard which they should be held to.
I want to move to another issue center.
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of its eighty billion and new taxpayer funding. And this on top of the fact we're now hearing that the IRS is planning to hire thirty thousand new employees over the next two years. Now, I want you to explain, is this on top of the eighty seven they already wanted, or is this thirty because they don't get the eighty seven thousand that they wanted.
Explain this for everybody.
Well, now, unfortunately, this is the first installment of the eighty seven thousand. So we all recall how last year the Democrats, when they still had control of both Houses of Congress, they ram through their Orwellian named Inflation Reduction Act, which did nothing to reduce inflation and in fact increased inflation by spending trillions of dollars and imposing billions of taxes on things like oil and gas, which drove up
the cost of gasoline at the pump. One of the elements of that multi trillion dollar bill was eighty billion dollars in new funds for the IRS to hire eighty seven thousand new employees. Well, right before Good Friday and Easter, the IRS released the news. They did it as a news dump going into the holiday because they didn't want people to pay attention to it that they are right
now hiring the first thirty thousand of those employees. Ten thousand of them are being hired in the current fiscal year, and in fiscal year twenty twenty four, they're planning to double that with twenty seven thousand new hires. Now, now what does that mean, Well, let's go through a lot
of different elements. The long and short of it is, it means a whole bunch more IRS employees there to harass you, to harass citizens, to rass small businesses, to harass and target the political enemies of the of the Biden White House. But let's go through some details. Number one, you know the IRS is big on deadlines. Well, the statute actually said that they had to release the details for how they were going to spend the eighty billion
dollars no later than February seventeenth, twenty twenty three. Now, I don't have my calendar in front of me, but I'm pretty sure it's not February seventeenth, twenty twenty three. They're, in fact forty eight days late. If you or I tried that with the IRS, we'd face penalties. The IRS forty eight days late, No big deal, that's just business as usual. What are they doing with this money? Well, the Democrats talking point is that this is for taxpayer services.
It's to make the IRS nicer. I don't know, when you file your return, maybe they send a masseuse to do a foot massage. You know, it's just taxpayer services. Yeah, well, let's have some top lines. For every one dollar that is being spent on quote, taxpayer services, fourteen dollars is being spent on new IRS enforcement. Forty five point six billion dollars is going to tax enforcement, while three point
one eight billion is going to taxpayer services. So when they claim this is to make the IRS more warm and fuzzy, they ain't telling the truth.
You look at the IRS and just some of the other headlines that we've seen recently. We saw Matt Taby who was testifying before Congress. All of a sudden he gets bothered the same exact day with IRS com and knocking. You can go back to Lois Lerner harassing Conservatives, Christians pro are anti abortion groups, tea party groups. We've seen that there, but you had, I mean this recently. One was I think even more shocking was the fact that the IRS is visiting a journalist home the same day
as before Congress. And that just screams abuse of power and weaponizing of the IRS. And now they want more thirty thousand more employees that could easily be used to do this to many other good Americans.
Look, the good news is they're not very good at this. They're so clottish, they're so obvious when they target their political opponents, they do so in a way that is obvious that Matt Taibi is is actually a left leading liberal journalist who.
Speech well.
But he made a flawed mistake right, he actually did some journalism.
He has told the truth that in particular he is courageously reported on the Twitter files and on big tech getting in bed with the government, engaging in censorship. And I gotta say Tave has been I think a little bit astonished. I've met him only once. I met him on the day of his testimony. I don't know him personally, but I suspect that going into this, I mean, he was a man of the left. I suspect he he had some real skepticism towards conservatives and assumed Democrats would
be more welcoming of journalism and free speech. I got to say, I think those assumptions were severely disabused. The Democrats in the House before whom he testified, attacked him relentlessly because he dared speak about big tech censorship and big tech doing it at the behest of government, the Biden Whitehouse, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice. But the IRS steps in under Biden and shamelessly they send IRS employees to his home literally the same day
he's testifying in front of Congress. You know, if they'd waited a week, it wouldn't have seemed that obvious. But these guys are bad at their jobs that they're so obvious that they come in and just beat on the door as he's testifying. And by the way, I'll note, all right, let me ask you a question, a fairly amazing question. Sure, in the year twenty twenty two, what percentage of IRS employees do you think physically set foot in the office in the entire year twenty twenty two.
The scary part is, I'm going to go with like thirty percent, only because I know the quality of government work and I know what they were able to get away with in the name of COVID.
Well, I'll say this, you may be even slightly more pessimistic than the IRS should be. So the then hot head of the IRS, Charles Reddig told Congress in twenty twenty two that fifty three percent of IRS employees never set foot into an office, so doing some mass, presumably that means forty seven percent did set foot in an office. It's not clear they were there a day or two
or what they were there. And I got to tell you, when the Democrats were ramming this terrible legislation through the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, my colleague Susan Collins, Senator from Maine, a Republican, but a very liberal Republican. She had an amendment that I thought was a terrific amendment that said, before you can spend the eighty billion dollars in new funds, the IRS needs to do a public accounting of how many of its employees are actually showing up at work.
We voted on it. It was a straight party line vote. The Democrats all said, nope, no, we don't expect government employees to show up to work.
Not a problem. They don't have to come.
It's incredible because the job is you're supposed to have to go to work, right, there's zero accountability if you're getting to phone it in.
Look, that's exactly right. And so you know.
And by the way, this the eighty seven thousand new IRS employees, which is doubling the size of the agency. It's designed, among other things, to put cash directly in the pockets of Democrats in Congress. In the past decade, the IRS union has given six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and fifty nine dollars in pack funding to Democrat party committees. Wow, in twenty twenty two, what percentage of the pack funding from the IRS employee unions do you think went to Democrats?
I would say seventy five plus percent.
Easy, one hundred percent.
Really, they're not even trying to hide how biased they are. They're not even trying to act like, oh, we'll give a little bit over here.
One hundred percent. They couldn't find one wobbly Republican. They couldn't find one hundred percent of pack funding to Democrats. In the twenty twenty two cycle, one hundred percent of
its pack funding went to Democrats. And so when Democrats dump eighty billion in new cash into the IRS, magic upon magic, hundreds of thousands of that dollars, if not millions of those dollars come right back in campaign checks, which may explain why Democrats senators don't care at all if the IRS employees show up at work or not. The only good thing is if they're not at work, maybe they'll be less effective in harassing citizens and small businesses.
But be clear, their objective is to harass and target and attack you if you are perceived to be a political enemy of this regime.
Incredible, and the scary part is they're, like you said, they're just trying to explode the size of the IRS, and I think it's pretty clear to weaponize it and make sure they can keep hardworking Americans down in the process, and they don't have to go to the office to do it, which is also a scary idea as well. I want to also tell everybody real quick about a
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dot Com center. I want to get to something else also here that's interesting and let's talk about the Southern Poverty Law Center. You had an op ed this week calling them out and the double standard of their self serving nature.
And it comes down.
To really two of their lawyers, one of them that had actual criminal past issues, and yet the Southern Poverty Law Center has done nothing to ram in their own out of control individuals within their organization.
So the Southern Poverty Law Center is a radical left wing organization. It is virulent, hateful, and it is hard, hard left. Now you might say, oh, come on, those adjectives are strong. What are they like Antifa terrorists or something. Well, as it so happens, a lawyer who works at the Southern Poverty Law Center, his name is Thomas Webb Jurgens, was recently charged for being an Antifa terrorists and for his direct involvement in a violent riot against the police
in Atlanta, Georgia. Now, all right, you're ostensibly a legal organization. One of your lawyers gets charged with being a terrorist. You would think at a minimum you'd back away and say, well, well, okay, we're not actually a terrorist organization.
Nope.
SPLC said, great, we stand by our lawyer, and I'm going to commend them for one thing, truth and advertising. They're admitting what it is is they believe. And in fact, within hours of jurgens arrest, the SPLC released a statement, and it didn't condemn the violence against the police officers
that took place. Instead, it denounced Jurgens's arrest as quote and I'm quoting him here, part of ongoing state repression and violence and urged not that the violence against police officers end, but instead a de escalation of violence against black, brown, and Indigenous communities. That's who they are now, who have they been in the past. In the past, so they put out every year a hate list where they identify
hate groups. And by hate groups they mean you, they mean Conservatives, they mean Christians, that they mean any people of faith that take their faith seriously. So among others that they listed the Family Research Council as a hate group. And by the way, an angry, violent leftist took the Southern Poverty Legal Center's list of hate groups and went as a gunman an open fire trying to murder people at the Family Research Council, and heroically a security guard
risked his life and stopped that violent attack. That's who the SPLC is now. Let me tell you the most amazing thing, you know who.
They also are.
A source for the Biden administration for federal appellate judges, and in particular, Joe Biden has nominated Nancy Abudu, who is the director for Strategic Litigation for the SPLC, to be a Federal Court of Appeals judge for the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Now, I got to say, this is amazing when they are selecting as their nominees to be federal pellet judges senior leaders from radical, racist,
hateful groups that embrace Antifa terrorism. And and I can tell you in the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Abudu was before our committee, I questioned her about this, she refused to disclaim, to denounce, to distance herself in any way whatsoever with the shameful and disgraceful record. The Senate is expected fairly soon to vote on on Nancy Abudhu's confirmation. And I very much hope that we don't put left wing partisan radicals on the Federal Court of Appeals.
What are your your your gut instincts on this?
Are there enough Democrats that you serve with that maybe are moderate or just see this as not the right job to put a radical activist on the on the on the these you know, real not just positions, but they have real consequences.
These positions.
They're putting them in for everyday Americans who may have to see themselves or a case that involves in go before one of these judges.
Well if passed his prologue. The answer to that is no. Joe Biden has been president over two years now, almost two and a half years. In that time, do you want to know how many Democrats have voted against any Biden judge.
I'm going to go with one to zero.
One was high. Wow, the number is zero. Not a single Democrat has voted against a single Biden judge. And the Senate Judiciary Committee they rubber stamp every left wing radical, one after the other after the other.
Is that we're getting more radical by the way that they're just saying at this point they feel like they can they no longer have to have have a solid resume with understanding of the law and the Constitution. It's just put a fundamentalist on there. We don't care if they're socialists. In fact, we want them to be extreme.
Yes.
Now, look, we've talked in this podcast about how in the Senate Commerce Committee in the past two months, I led the effort and successfully defeated two Biden nominees, number one Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission and number two Phil Washington to the FAA. Both of those we were able to pick Democrats off. Now, the Commerce Committee is a very different committee. The Judiciary Committee, sadly is
very partisan, and the Democrats there have rubber stamped. Look, we had a judge who hadn't yet been voted out of committee who didn't know what Article two of the Constitution is art Article two is literally what establishes the President of the United States and the executive branch. And this judicial nominee said, I don't know the answer to that. That is someone who is patently unqualified to be a judge.
We have another judicial nominee who Chuck Schumer put forward to be a district judge in New York, who wrote how he is motivated every day by hatred for conservatives. He wakes up in the morning motivated by hatred for conservatives. This is not someone who should be a federal judge. And so I'm leading the fight against these nominees. But I got to tell you. I talk privately with my Democrat colleagues and I asked them, I say, look, why is it so hard to stand up and say no,
to say you know what? Judges ought to know what Article two of the Constitution is a first year law student, if you didn't know that, you would flunk constitutional law. Maybe a federal judge should know enough to pass con law. Or a radical from the SPLC, an organization that has been extreme that has is right now embracing Antifa terrorism. When I asked Democrat, I said, look, under the Constitution,
the Senate has a role of advising and consent. That means you can say no. And to be clear, when Donald Trump was president, we confirmed a lot of fantastic judges, and I led the fight to confirm many of them. But there were some nominees that were not great nominees that had problems. And I can tell you that I
and others on Judiciary pressed back against the Trump White House. Now, we usually didn't do so publicly, and I've told Democrats, I get you don't necessarily want to have a public fight with the White House about this, But I'll tell you when Trump was president, I'd pick up the phone, Mike Lee would pick up the phone. We'd call the Trump White House and we'd say, look, this nominee is not up to stuff, and almost without exception, the White
House would pull the nominee. That's the way to do it. And at least so far, no Democrats have had the chutzpah to stand up and do that.
Yeah, it is sad to see, but all so, it's like they just say, we don't even care. Just give me an activist on there. That's now what our job is. It's no longer about what they know or what they don't know. They'll figure that part out later. As long as they're an activist and they pledge allegiance to radical ideology, they're good enough for me. I want to tell everybody
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higher the oil go, it benefits Biden's green agenda. You combine this now with some of the data that's been coming out and on the price of electric vehicles that are going up. This with Biden's EPA administrator Michael Reagan announcing new tailpipe admission standards. Here's what he had to say, and this was very quiet. Take a listen this week.
That's why today I'm pleased to announce that EPA is proposing the strongest ever federal pollution technology standards for both cars and trucks. Together, today's actions will accelerate our ongoing transition to a clean vehicle's future, tackle the climate crisis head on, and improve air quality for communities all across the country.
Now, center that sounds great, finding Danny, But if you really want to put a real headline to this, what the EPA administrator is announcing is he's forcing dealers and shoppers to mostly either drive or to sell electric vehicles with technology, by the way that source from China helping them become even more powerful. This is going to skyrocket the cost of electric vehicles for the average American as well.
Well. It is a radical position.
It is following the position Gavin Newsom has taken in California, and Gavin Newsom really foreshadows all of the extreme radical policies coming from the Biden administration. This hurts consumers, This will drive up costs, This will drive up inflation, This will hurt jobs in the auto industry in particular, This will increase child labor and misery globally, and this will benefit many hostile countries, including in particular China. Now let
me back through each of those and walk through it. So, California has announced a mandate that by twenty thirty five, all new cars sold in the state must be electric, that no internal combustion engines and new cars can be sold starting in twenty thirty five. Now what does that mean, Well, among other things, it means new cars sold in California must have at least two and a half times as much copper in them as conventional cars. Now, what is
having two and a half times as much copper mean? Well, copper is something where in order to meet the demands of the Green New Deal for quote net zero globally, we're going to need to double the need for copper by the mid twenty thirty So copper consumption doubling. Now, where do you find copper? If you look at crude oil, forty percent of world crude oil supplies are found in
three countries, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. Now that's a good thing because we're one of the three, and under Trump, we became the number one producer worldwide of both oil and natural gas. Well, how about copper, Well, just two countries mine about forty percent of the world's copper supplies Peru, where the government right now is in utter disarray and the president was just impeached and arrested, and Chile, whose government likewise is being pulled powerfully left.
Now that dynamic is problematic. But let's put on top of that the reality that other rare earth minerals are also critical in electric cars. Cobalt, which is an essential element for electric vehicle batteries, comes in very significant parts. Seventy percent of the co vault produced on planet Earth comes from one place, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where massive mining operations exist along with small hand dug mines literally dug by hand, where they have both adults and
children working side by side. Now, how about the China peace Well, about sixty percent of the world's lithium, also critical to electric batteries, is processed in China. About forty seven percent of the copper worldwide is smelted in China. How much copper do you think the US processes worldwide?
I would bet it's under five percent, only just because we've done everything we can to shut down manufacturing in America.
Well, you're exactly right. This time it's four percent. We used to have more than a dozen copper smelters, now we have two. And so the impact of this is enriching China, is benefiting child labor, is driving up costs. And what the Biden administration now has done is it has announced a mandate that two thirds of all new vehicles and a quarter of heavy trucks sold in the US have to be electric by twenty thirty two. This
is going to drive up your costs. And by the way, if you're skeptical, you know, if you believe the Democrat and media talking point that these green new deal jobs are going to be great for car companies. Let me read you from an analyst note on GM, and I'm just going to read it. This is an analyst that
is analyzing GM General Motors for people investing. We are initiating on General Motors a neutral rating because the above position GM well for the next decade of EV's but a transition from a profitable ninety eight percent internal combustion engine portfolio to an EV portfolio negative fifteen to thirty percent gross margin could poses significant challenges. And I'm just going to read you a tweet from Brian Sullivan on CNBC.
I'm gonna just read you the tweet analyst note on GM going from ninety eight percent profitable car sales to negative margins on evs. Does that sound sustainable? Hello, one hundred thousand dollars pickups. This is the Joe Biden Green New Deal. Drive up your costs and make it un affordable for you to provide for your family.
Yeah, it's also want This next election coming up is going to be so important because this is their game plan and they don't care how much it hurts you, how much it hurts your family, how much it hurts the future this country, how much it enriches, as you mentioned over and over again, China and weekends America because with a week America and my words, not yours. These democrats that are really I think communists, they know that they gain more power through doing things like this. Don't
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