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Jan. 9, 2025 - The David Knight Show
07:12
The HyperCar "Solution" to Potholes & Crumbling Infrastructure
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In Manhattan, at the beginning of the year, they started doing congestion tolls, and that's something that we've seen in the UK. It's basically communist rationing.
You know, you've got one job the government does.
Many people say, well, you know, you've got to have government.
Who's going to do the roads?
And we would always say, well, maybe the government is doing such a bad job, maybe we've got to have somebody else do the roads.
As a matter of fact, the Consumer Electronics Show, it's kind of interesting to see the kind of stuff that is coming up at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Somebody came up with a hypercar.
And, you know, if you're rich enough and you want to drive a car, you want to drive it fast, this is a hypercar that actually jumps over potholes and massive problems on the road.
Look at this.
Watch this thing.
Now, of course, it's even self-driving here, but it's determining where the pothole is.
I had to remember where they were on my way to work.
I would drive kind of like this, but I would swerve rather than jump over the potholes.
So it's kind of like a cross between a Lamborghini and the General Lee.
It should be playing Dixie when it goes over these.
There's a bunch of, wow, that's a bunch of spikes to take out the tires.
And look at that.
Jumps over it.
Wow.
What if they make that a little bit wider?
Would it still jump over it?
That's my question.
And how does it do the jumping?
Here it is going over an LGBT display.
But it did kick up some dust on that, so it didn't make it all the way through.
Well, you know, the government's got one job, to build infrastructure.
It doesn't seem to want to do that either, does it?
You know?
Put out the fires, build the infrastructure, they don't care.
Instead, they think that the one job is to tax us.
And that's right.
And that's what this is.
It's congestion pricing.
Done in the name of the environment, really, is where this all began with.
Sadiq Khan in London and New York is right there.
So, it's pretty expensive.
It's going to cost you like $9 to enter Manhattan weekdays during the day.
During your off time, you can get in there for the low, low rate of $2.25 just to go into Manhattan.
I would pay 10 times that much, 100 times that much, not to have to go to Manhattan.
Last time we were in Manhattan was when the UN was trying to push through the arms trade treaty right a week after they had staged the Aurora, Colorado shooting.
I'm absolutely certain those two things were tied together because they had gotten so much pushback for this Fast and Furious stuff and running guns across the border.
And even the New York Times said that was a false flag to make a case for gun control domestically.
We're going to have to register guns and all the rest of the stuff so that when it goes across the border, we can trace it back to where they got this thing from.
And so that blew up in their face when a government agent got killed with some of these trafficked firearms.
And so that really put a wrinkle in their arms trade treaty because it was all about controlling small arms.
It was not about controlling tanks and things like that, which they're not going to do anything about that.
They just wanted firearms.
And so a week before, you had this very, very suspicious shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
But anyway, we were there to cover it and to do interviews with gun manufacturers who were there to speak against it and things like that.
And it didn't pass, which is good news.
But the problem was, it was such a mess.
I mean, Karen dropped me and my two sons off who were helping me set up interviews and cameras and lights and stuff like that on the street in front of the UN. And Karen just had to keep circling in Manhattan.
Couldn't find a place to park anywhere.
What a mess that place is.
I pay to stay out of there.
Trump has vowed to kill the program when he takes office, but it's unclear whether he'll follow through.
It's unclear whether he'll follow through with anything, quite frankly.
I'm skeptical about anything that he promises here.
The question is, does he have a jurisdiction?
I don't know.
I mean, you know, look at when they give federal money, as they did to build the interstates.
Then after that's done in the 50s by Eisenhower, Nixon, his vice president, becomes president.
And 20 years later, he says, no, you're going to have to drive 55 miles an hour now because I say so.
And because I'm going to take the money away from you if you don't do that.
And, of course, they were happy to comply because they could get traffic fines and tickets for people as well.
Not only is this a massive tax for people coming in, it's extremely inconvenient from both driving and personal bookkeeping standards.
It'll be virtually impossible for New York City to come back as long as this congestion tax is in effect.
The toll was supposed to go into effect last year with a $15 change.
But because last year was an election year, they decided they would wait to stick it to the people the next year.
And they even say that.
So, it is...
There's some lawsuits that are going on.
New Jersey obviously is not very happy about this for the people who are going to be commuting.
I can't even imagine commuting by car from New Jersey into New York.
But anyway, the funds that they collect are not going to go to fixing potholes.
No, you'll have to buy a supercar or hypercar in order to jump the potholes.
The money will not go to fixing or even maintaining the roads, and certainly they can't make them any wider.
They could make them higher.
You know, Musk even got that right when he started talking about his boring project.
He said, we're building the, you know, the cities are getting more and more congested and they're going vertically.
So we've got to go vertically with the road.
His solution was to tunnel.
Whereas everybody always knew this in all of the movies that you would have to have higher, you'd have to have multiple layers of roads if you're going to keep up with the population.
But they don't want you driving at all in their cities.
And so the money is going to go to the New York mass transit system that they control because they want you dependent on them.
Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
And I could...
If only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
But he told me to get lost.
Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred.
Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
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