Dennis Prager Show - Freedom Has Not Been A Democrat Value Since 1917
Aired: 2024-09-23
Duration: 05:58


=== Electric Trucks Mandate (04:01) ===

[00:00:00]  Harris says she's not for electric vehicle mandates.
[00:00:06]  And it's a lie.
[00:00:09]  Because it's technically true, but it's a lie.
[00:00:12]  Because she has the EPA enforce the mandate, so they don't have to pass a mandate.
[00:00:20]  Reading to you here from the Wall Street Journal.
[00:00:24]  The emission standards are especially punitive for U.S. manufacturers that mostly sell trucks and SUVs.
[00:00:32]  Companies will effectively have to produce one to two electric trucks for every gas-powered one in 2027 and closer to four to one by 2032. So in other words, 2027, that's almost two years from now.
[00:00:54]  That for every gas power truck, American companies, but she's against mandates, get it?
[00:01:01]  She's not for mandates.
[00:01:02]  But they'll have to do this.
[00:01:07]  And Trump and the Republicans are the threat to democracy, not the EPA, which nobody elected and can't pass laws, but it mandates this.
[00:01:18]  There's no question they'll go out of business.
[00:01:29]  There's no question.
[00:01:30]  This is a gift to China, which is massively invested in electrical vehicles because it knows that the West is committing suicide.
[00:01:40]  Yeah, you mine all the precious metals and other metals that you need to make batteries for electric cars, China.
[00:01:50]  You do that.
[00:01:52]  And we'll make sure that...
[00:01:55]  We can compete.
[00:01:59]  Americans, like me, don't want an electric vehicle.
[00:02:03]  Okay?
[00:02:04]  7% do.
[00:02:06]  God bless them.
[00:02:07]  That's the whole point of freedom.
[00:02:12]  So what is...
[00:02:14]  I don't understand.
[00:02:14]  Seriously, what is General Motors going to do in two years if they have to produce two electric trucks for every gas-powered truck?
[00:02:25]  what's going to happen?
[00:02:26]  That means that a substantial percentage of the vehicles they produce they will not be able to sell.
[00:02:37]  Well, When that happens, you have the overhead of making a truck with none of the revenue of selling it.
[00:02:46]  You go out of business.
[00:02:47]  Electric trucks cost much more to produce than sedans since they require much bigger batteries.
[00:03:04]  Ford lost $44,000 on every electric vehicle sold in the second quarter, which is more than some of its trucks retail for.
[00:03:17]  Automakers are scaling back EV investment.
[00:03:22]  amid slowing demand.
[00:03:24]  Ford announced last month it is canceling production of an electric SUV and delaying an electric pickup.
[00:03:34]  I just got an SUV this weekend.
[00:03:44]  And for the first time in my memory, I don't know, The last time I remember doing this, I was in my 20s.

=== Left's Definition of Freedom (02:12) ===

[00:03:53]  I bought it.
[00:03:55]  I didn't lease it.
[00:03:57]  And the reason is, I know how precious this will be.
[00:04:01]  A gas-powered SUV? Oh my God, it'll be like gold in a few years.
[00:04:09]  Because of the left.
[00:04:11]  So it is. ...
[00:04:25]  I just saw a picture of a Tim Walz rally.
[00:04:29]  And you know what sign people behind him were carrying so that the cameras would see it?
[00:04:35]  They were all carrying, and the Democratic Party gives it to people at any of these rallies.
[00:04:41]  they were all carrying a sign that read freedom.
[00:04:45]  The moral inversion that I read to you about in the Western world, that is a perfect example.
[00:04:57]  people.
[00:04:59]  The left has never been for freedom anywhere on earth since 1917 in the Russian Revolution.
[00:05:07]  Never!
[00:05:08]  There is no example of the left increasing freedom.
[00:05:12]  Liberals are for freedom.
[00:05:15]  Conservatives are for freedom.
[00:05:16]  The left...
[00:05:17]  Is against freedom.
[00:05:19]  Look at Lula in Brazil.
[00:05:21]  Look at Maduro in Venezuela.
[00:05:25]  Not to mention the communists and socialists and others.
[00:05:29]  Freedom never expands.
[00:05:31]  It's not a left-wing value.
[00:05:36]  Just as truth is not.
[00:05:41]  Freedom.
[00:05:42]  Oh my God.
[00:05:43]  The Democratic Party.
[00:05:45]  But they assumed they could fool vast numbers of Americans, and my sad conclusion is that they're right.
[00:05:53]  Oh, Democrats are waving a sign that says freedom.