3/17/25: Tesla collapsing, Trump declares Biden pardons void

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- 94% of Germans say they would not buy a Tesla as Elon Musk's company is in serious trouble globally

-- Tesla has reportedly stopped Cybertruck deliveries because the vehicles are falling apart as they drive around

-- Donald Trump unleashes authoritarian insanity during a speech at the Department of Justice

-- Donald Trump declares media outlets adversarial to him "illegal"

-- A new report finds that the right wing is dominating the left in the online news space

-- A man votes for Donald Trump and his Peruvian wife is subsequently detained and thrown into a detention center

-- In a middle of the night meltdown, Donald Trump declares Joe Biden's pardons "void" and "vacant"

-- Supposedly "anti-war" Trump launches new attacks in Yemen

-- A confused Donald Trump delivers a series of disoriented statements while flying on Air Force One

-- On the Bonus Show: US deports hundreds despite court order, Republicans push to make "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a mental illness, students wonder why college tuition costs more as online enrollment grows, much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody.
0:07.9	Great show today.
0:09.4	We're actually going to record this one rather than immediately deleting it because
0:13.1	it's so bad.
0:14.2	We are going to talk about so many things today, including does the Constitution matter
0:20.2	anymore?
0:20.8	We're going to do some tax stuff, some thick and meaty policy things. day, including does the constitution matter anymore?
0:20.9	We're going to do some tax stuff, some thick and meaty policy things.
0:25.5	But we're also going to talk about the free market and free market capitalism.
0:30.6	And I come to you bearing news, my friends, that the free market appears to be deciding that
0:37.1	Tesla is done. If you want to see real capitalism,
0:41.6	we are seeing it in front of our very eyes. Tesla is collapsing in Germany. It has nothing to do
0:49.1	with government interference. It has nothing to do with regulation. It has nothing to do with an overzealous regulator or government.
0:57.8	It is the free market at work.
1:00.7	People deciding they do not want a product.
1:05.5	And this has consequences for the company selling that product.
1:10.3	What am I talking about? A massive survey of over 100,000
1:14.5	Germans confirmed what Tesla sales numbers in Europe already told us. 94% of Germans say
1:24.0	they will not buy a Tesla. This is not happening in a vacuum because EV sales are going up.
1:32.3	If nobody wants electric vehicles, then of course, anybody selling only electric vehicles is going to
1:37.9	suffer, but that is very much not the case. German electric vehicle sales grew 27% last year, while Tesla sales went down 41% and a staggering
1:50.4	70% in the first two months of 2025 compared to last year. This is destructive. Why is this
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