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Um I cannot believe what is happening and the reaction that the left is having towards President Trump and Elon Musk.
And I just spent a lot of time thinking about this this weekend, and then I started doing some research.
And you know, whether you like Elon Musk, don't like Elon Musk, uh, is irrelevant to me.
All I know is this, and I I have not had long enough conversations.
He is saying that if this country continues to spend as it is spending, we will go broke.
This is the first time in our adult lives, and this goes back to the Reagan years and the Grace Commission that anybody is ever seriously taken on the issue of waste fraud abuse corruption, and I think when all in is said and done, we're gonna have hundreds of billions, if not over a trillion dollars in taxpayer money saved.
It's very it's not it's doesn't seem to be very well known that the average American makes sixty-six thousand dollars a year.
By the time you play pay your rent, your mortgage, your car payment, your insurance, by the time you put groceries in your in in your kitchen, um, most people that that's a and clothes on your back.
I mean, you don't have a lot left after that.
I mean, that that is the cost of living.
That's what it costs these days.
And I see what they are doing to this man, and understand why this Is mostly happening because number one, he went out, he took a position, and you take a political position and you're in business, you definitely run a risk, but you don't expect to be treated this way.
And it's it a lot of this is rooted in his support of Donald Trump.
He has with a, you know, he's been out there showing the country what is now over a hundred billion dollars in waste fraud abuse and corruption.
I am grateful for that.
He has put a lot of his own life's business on hold to serve the country and to serve the president, and he's working for free.
When he was needed before the election, and people in the northwestern side of North Carolina, people in Tennessee, and then later people in the Pacific Palisades and people in California when they had no communication with the outside world, he provided Starlink for all of these people.
He has been on the cutting edge of space technology with SpaceX and has successfully been become the first company to ever, you know, launch rockets into orbit.
Now he's even figured out a way to retrieve them and so that they could be reused again, and he is going to in probably in the next three weeks or so go up and rescue these astronauts that were abandoned in space.
He offered to do it for Biden and Harris, and they didn't want him to do it.
Um, and I pray that he's successful in doing so.
Democrats, I guess, would celebrate any failure, not me.
I want these Americans brought home.
And he's been building amazing cars that I thought the left would like.
And this is this is the opposite of what the government's been trying to force other car companies to do.
They they don't want to be in the electric car business, but he has found a way to do it, do it successfully, and make a pro make a huge profit in the in the process because he believed in it going back as early as 2002.
I am very pro-choice.
And and I believe in I I once owned a hybrid escalate at one point, and I wanted to try it.
I like new technology.
I thought it was actually a very, very well-built car, and um I like the I just liked it.
It would mean it was nothing not to like about it.
Um, and he's building amazing cars that are different, and he's been successful at it.
He is working on Neurolink that may one day help the blind to see.
I hope he's successful, which couples with artificial intelligence, and it would help people with spinal cord injuries be able to walk.
Um over these years, I have never supported boycotts or or cancellations, but I'm now watching what they're doing to him and his business.
By the way, it was breaking today.
Elon Musk post posted there was and still is a massive cyber attack against X. He reported this about 130, about an hour and a half ago.
We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources.
Either a large coordinated group or country is involved, and he said that X is suffered periodic outages on Monday morning.
And then I went this weekend as I was thinking about this, and I'm looking at all the reports, and they're all recent.
March 8th, Molotov cocktails, arson graffiti at Tesla facilities that are attacked in the wake.
Only this all has to do with the fact that he's identifying waste fraud and abuse and helping Donald Trump.
This is all that this is about.
And on January 29th through February 11th, North Carolina of North Colorado woman was arrested, causing between 5,000 and 20,000 in damage to a Tesla dealership.
And according to police, this was vandalized by spray painting Nazi under the dealership's entrance sign and starting small fires on the lot by ignoring igniting Molotov cocktails inside of vodka bottles.
She was charged with malicious destruction of property, remains in custody.
Then on March 3rd in Maryland, graffiti was found at a Tesla dealership a day after demonstrators gathered to protest Musk.
The graffiti said no musk with a sign that resembles a swastika.
Then I see in Massachusetts, they reported seven Tesla charging stations that they were just set on fire.
I mean, basically like an act of terrorism.
A Massachusetts man was accused of vandalizing several several Tesla vehicles with stickers of Musk in the Boston suburb of Brookline and uh calling it free speech.
Now that's not free speech when you vandalize somebody else's property.
In Portland, Oregon, the same day, seven shots were fired at a Tesla dealership, damaging three cars and shattering windows on March 7th, the day after, at the same Tesla dealership previously vandalized, Northern Colorado police reported an arson at that dealership.
Over 350 protesters gathered at a New York City showroom in New York City.
This was on Saturday as part of a nationwide Tesla takedown.
I see that Europe is now following suit and and sales have gone down significantly.
And I'm all because he supports Donald Trump.
You know, and I actually did some research about Tesla's this weekend.
Now I've driven a Tesla thanks to a friend of mine that loves his Tesla.
Loves it.
And when you look at the Made in America Auto Index, six different Tesla models, six of them, are the most made in America cars.
I like made in America.
How many years, Linda, have I said, I prefer a car that is made in America?
I don't care if it's a if it's you know a Honda, as long as it's made in America and creating American jobs.
And if you have Made in America Auto Index and six of his models, this is the Tesla Model Three Performance, the Model Y long range, the Model Y, the Cyber Truck, the Tesla Model X, uh Model S, and the Tesla Model X. And they have, according to another Made It in America index metric from Cars.com, the Tesla Model Y is the most American-made car that is out there.
These are cars made in America that create high-paying career jobs for Americans, and it's pretty amazing.
Indiana State Police said that last month a 28-year-old is facing felony count of intimidation after making threats over several months.
This guy posted on his ex account, we're gunning for you, muskrat.
He has death threats on January 22nd.
I've got enough bullets for his uh beef and all the rest of you man children.
On February 3rd, you've broken the law.
You're on the hit list.
On February 3rd, you're robbing the American people.
We will gut you and parade your corpse through the streets.
On February 16th, I'm going to plant a bomb at Elon Musk's house.
He has children.
Representative Garcia was accused of making a threat against a public official in a letter.
Ed Martin, acting U.S. attorney for DC, asked Garcia about an interview on fake news CNN.
What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight.
This is an actual fight for democracy.
In the interview that took place the same day, he held up a photo of Musk during a hearing and called him a male body part.
He wrote the comment sounds like a threat to Musk and his staff.
Their concerns have led to this inquiry.
We take threats against public officials seriously.
Then he wrote, No reasonable person would view my comments as a threat.
We're living in a dangerous time.
Elected members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump administration.
On TikTok, one woman made a video, a throat slitting gesture while saying we need to X him, and by X, I mean formally known as assassination.
This is what this man is living through.
I'm just pointing this out to you.
He then mocked law enforcement, claiming that she had not filed taxes for eight years.
Arrest me.
You don't have enough people to even investigate me at this point, so I'm going to say, let's assassinate the mother effer.
Musk did respond to that.
Death threat, admission on multiple counts of tax fraud.
Now she's in trouble.
Don't you just love when they admit their crimes on video for the world to see?
A staff member of Boston University shared a graphic on his blue sky account of the Doge team that read wanted for treasure treason, dead or alive.
And I can keep going.
I, I, you know what this is?
This is.
this is the left today.
We saw it on display last week at the joint speech before Congress of President Trump.
And this is now how corrupted they've been.
And I understand that maybe, well, he was never, you know, I don't know...
All I know is what he's doing with waste fraud and abuse and corruption is good for the country.
All I know is he's donating his time.
All I know is he helped President Trump win.
All I know is he's put a lot of his own personal life on to uh you know on hold.
All I know is is he's helped Americans out in their darkest hours, like North Carolina, Tennessee, and California.
I have never on this program ever supported a boycott cancellation, calls for people's firing.
I don't do that.
Um, and I will tell you this.
I think what I'm going to do, and I've talked to Linda about this.
There is a way to fight back.
Because now this company is suffering, and that means the employees are going to risk being laid off.
And I don't want those employees laid off.
I don't want them to lose their jobs.
I don't want his business to suffer because he's trying to help out his country.
It's not that he needs my money.
But I think what might be a good idea, we're going to work with the lawyers uh for iHeart Media, and I'm going to buy proudly a Tesla.
And I'm going to have a contest, and I'm going to give that Tesla to one of you in this audience as a prize from me.
We have to follow all the different laws, rules, and regulations.
And I bought one for myself, which I think I'm going to do anyway, because I really want one.
Because I after I drove my friends now, by the way, they have this one model, Linda.
I don't know if you've checked this out.
It's their model S. Oh my gosh.
You know, it goes a whopping uh 1,000.
I'm what is that?
It has over a thousand horsepower.
Can you believe that?
A thousand?
Over a thousand horsepower.
I'm not kidding.
And so that'll get me from 42nd Street to 44th Street in under an hour.
Correct.
Well, you're not that you can drive that fast, but I mean, it could be making a joke, of course.
Uh, of course you're making a joke, but there are very humorous people that sometimes listen and monitor the show.
Um you can drive it for nearly 400 hours without having to do a recharge.
Uh they have their own insurance that you get from Tesla, assuming that you you get past their insurance qualifications.
They got so much good good going on here.
So I am going to do that as a just to send a message.
This is so morally corrupt, reprehensible, despicable, and disgusting.
So we're gonna figure it out, and we'll have more coming up this week.
I'm leaning towards the yes myself, but I'll let people pick the one that they want.
I don't care.
What do I care?
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I I don't like what they're doing to Elon Musk.
I think it is I mean, between the death threats and now attacking his businesses and targeting him and threatening him.
And what has he really done?
I mean, they've just look objectively.
He supports Donald Trump.
That that's strike one.
You can't support Donald Trump and he advocated he planted himself in Pennsylvania, spent money to help Donald Trump get elected.
Okay, I'm grateful that he did because I think his efforts paid off big time.
He's identifying you know tens what will soon be hundreds and hundreds of billions in waste fraud abuse and corruption.
We as conservatives have wanted this for decades.
We've not gotten it and the left is melting down.
You know, he's put his own life on hold.
He's working for free to serve our country.
You know he's somebody that also has shown a lot of altruism helping the people that had no communications with the outside world in North Carolina, Tennessee, California.
He's now going to rescue and take the risky effort of rescuing astronauts.
I saw a lot of people on the left you know Tesla Rocket broke up the they would they were laughing about failure.
I mean isn't that really the Democrats couldn't stand for mothers that lost their children last week.
They couldn't stand for a 12 year old boy young man that that law that beat cancer and has a dream of being in law enforcement and became a secret service agent they can't stand for this young man great kid.
I mean you're you got to be kind of heartless and soulless.
You can't stand for the wife a young wife who lost her hero husband a law enforcement officer you can't stand for a young man that's now going to West Point and the president was able to tell him and inform him during that joint session and then here's Elon I thought liberals liked electric cars.
They were going to force him into our driveway.
I believe in in choice I don't think Ford should have to be forced to lose four and a half billion dollars a year producing cars that their particular that their clients don't want the people now once I drove a Tesla I'm not going to lie I was shocked at how great this thing is anyway so he's building amazing cars that are different.
It's proven I have a huge market and because of the demonization the never ending attacks against this man now his business is suffering.
He's building out a robotic arm that might take away menial tasks and one day be affordable for almost any middle class American that would be pretty cool too.
The greatest thing that he's working on is Neuralink, which may help the blind to see and people with spinal cord injuries walk again.
You know, this is what the left does.
We've experienced over the years these boycotts.
We've experienced calls for cancellations and firings.
You in this audience once helped me out, unbeknownst to me, I didn't know until it went viral.
You know, when we found out, what was the name of that coffee maker?
I forget.
The, oh yeah, the Keurig company decided to pull their ads off my show.
And then all of you came to my defense out of nowhere.
I see it starts going viral and people are dropping him three stories off you know and smashing them.
People are taking golf clubs and they're smashing them baseball bats and smashing them.
You know people are you know in safe areas obviously in their backyard they're taking out guns and they're they're they're just shooting them up I ended up buying well close to a thousand five hundred or a thousand Kerry machines anyone that could prove that they broke it you know on my behalf I've I felt an obligation to say all right let me get you once they because Kerrick then gave in to the pressure and they went back on the show.
I don't support this boycott cancel culture silencing voices nonsense.
You know, but I'm I'm not going to sit back and watch somebody that's trying to help us now in my research of Tesla I was stunned to find out that they make the most American car according to the school's Made in America Auto Index six of their models of the most made in America cars out there.
Kelly Bluebook study Tesla makes the most American cars according to another made in America index metric for cars.com you know Tesla, the most American made car.
That means, okay, most American products.
I'm sure they subcontract out for some of the parts and and but these are American jobs that, you know, that they think they're hurting Elon Musk.
They're not just hurting Elon Musk.
They're hurting all the people that work for Tesla.
Because if this this car company continues to get hurt this way, it's I it's on you can't even calculate the impact that it's going to have on people's lives.
And he's facing death threats and everything else in between.
He's, you know, we see vandalism and we see you know basically it looked like a terror attack.
It's on on his charging stations.
I mean it's unbelievable.
Why why?
Because he's exposing waste fraud abuse and corruption and supports Donald Trump.
So I'm gonna I'm working with my uh radio partners at IHeart and we're going to give away a Tesla come up with a contest to give away a Tesla on the show I'm I I'm gonna get one for myself too.
Now do I think that's gonna make or break Tesla?
No.
But instead of a boycott I believe in a bycot.
If you if if you're thinking of getting a new car, the only thing suggest maybe try it and see if you like it.
When I rode it I was blown away.
When I drove my friend's car, I was shocked when I saw that they have a model that has a hundred I'm sorry, a thousand six horsepower this is their model S plaid.
I couldn't believe it.
When I saw that it has a range of three hundred and ninety miles, I could not believe it.
When I saw that you can charge this thing in with a quick charge in like 17 minutes, I'm like that blew me away.
Um because charging obviously is a big deal.
I just don't drive 400 miles anymore.
So for me it's like the perfect car.
I could just you know I don't have to go to a gas station again.
Went to my gas station recently and even in Florida with gas prices are cheap.
You know I'd never have to pay for one again.
I like that idea and I get to do it on the in my own home.
I like doing things in my own home.
So we're gonna you know stay with us throughout the week we'll let you know.
Um Kevin in Florida.
Kevin what's going on how are you I'm a first time caller.
I've been listening to Hannity Combs days and I got to give a quick shout out to Katie and Linda Katie's amazing.
I want to thank her and I can't believe that you've never been to a steak and shake.
I've been saying for the longest time they're the best the double cheeseburger I get the double cheese the double cheeseburger that I got two of them.
I ate two of them I couldn't stop eating them.
That's why I'm calling because I heard you I heard you say that that's why I got to call you on because I've tried them all you know and they're all okay I could eat them all but steak and shake for the value six dollars you know you get out of there with a double burger and fries and bring a drink I usually drink water and what a value and the best tasting burger.
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But I just wanted to share that with you and thank you we love you here in Florida originally from Long Island have been here forty two Florida love Florida.
I'm glad you're here the free state of Florida God bless you keep up the good work and uh stay safe thank you.
You too buddy thank you.
Clinton Utah hey Clint how are you good I'm good thanks hey listen on that Elon Musk thing I'm I'm I'm as concerned as you are about it.
There is something I think the American people are not understanding and that it's very simple.
Obviously there's a lot of ignorance out there but the bottom line is Sean $3,000 for every man woman and child in America is what it would take to pay the interest only on our national debt you're right that's a fortune and I don't know maybe Trump needs to get on uh on the air and say hey we got to cover this interest in order to maintain our creditworthiness and so we're gonna have to raise everyone's taxes by three thousand
dollars per person every person man woman and child in order just to pay the interest uh to wake people up and help them understand that what Elon's doing is great and and he could say well you know what or we could just let Elon do his job.
America what would you want?
Well, I mean, the overwhelmingly 70 to 80% of people support what doge is doing and supports eliminating waste fraud and abuse, just like they support Donald Trump removing people that didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty and getting rid of criminals in this country.
Just like they support a balanced budget.
Just like they support energy dominance.
Just like they support law and order and the elimination of defund, dismantled Nobel laws.
Just like they support peace in Europe and peace in the Middle East.
Which he's working very hard at.
This is probably going to be a very, very pivotal week for the president's efforts to achieve these things.
And we've got to get there.
We can make the world a better place.
Who the hell wants more death and dying?
There's not going to be a Ukraine left if this continues.
Anyway, we can't let the mules in Iran have a nuclear weapon either.
You know, this country was founded on freedom, and uh, you know what?
Freedom is what it's all about.
That's why I'm freely gonna figure out how to give away a Tesla on this program just to show support.
And what about a bycott instead of a boycott?
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I just sick and tired of the vile, vicious hatred towards this man just for supporting the president.
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