Politics, Tesla Terrorism, and the Controversies of Modern America

The alarming rise of politically charged rhetoric and its real-world consequences takes center stage in this candid morning reflection. When Representative Jasmine Crockett suggests Democrats need to "punch" in races against Senator Ted Cruz, we must ask: how do such statements impact our already volatile political landscape? With Tesla dealerships becoming targets of what can only be described as domestic terrorism—complete with incendiary devices and armed suspects—the connection between inflammatory speech and dangerous action becomes impossible to ignore.

Meanwhile, Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson's declaration that "it's more embarrassing than ever to be an American" sparks a fascinating exploration of celebrity influence and fan reactions. As social media critics suggest she leave the country while longtime fans wrestle with disappointment, we're confronted with a deeply personal question: where do we draw our own boundaries when it comes to separating art from political views?

The conversation evolves into a thoughtful examination of consumer choices and personal values. Can we still enjoy Streisand's voice while disagreeing with her politics? Should we continue watching Clooney's films despite opposing viewpoints? These aren't simple questions with universal answers—they're individual judgments that reveal much about how we navigate our increasingly divided culture.

What's your threshold for boycotting? Have you ever stopped supporting an artist, product, or company based solely on political statements? Join the conversation and share where you draw your own lines between appreciation and principle in today's complex political landscape.

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Chapters

• 0:33 Morning Thoughts and Dinner Question
• 2:24 Jasmine Crockett's Comments on Ted Cruz
• 6:06 Tesla Terrorism and Political Violence
• 8:19 Nancy Wilson's America Comments
• 12:44 Question About Celebrity Boycotts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Well, hello and good morning. The birds are out chirping early. I can hear them in the trees as I sit here in the parking lot in my car, all by myself until my co-worker, tim, shows up to help post guard. Okay, I'm going to start out. I'm going to have two questions of the day, and I'm going to start off with. Mr Sean's sent me a question. Let's start with his and then I'll end with mine, because mine kind of relates to a topic, to an article that I want to talk about.

Speaker 1: 0:43

All right, mr Sean's wants to know, if anyone were to buy you whatever you wanted for dinner, what would you order? Dessert and appetizers included, mr Sean's. This is difficult because I like all of the foods except cantaloupe. This is difficult because I like all of the foods except cantaloupe. I don't know what I would order. I have no idea what appetizers I don't know. Um, I think my meal, though, would be a steak and potato. I'm a steak and potato kind of girl. I love a good steak and a potato with some butter and salt and pepper. Can't beat that. Or maybe have a lobster tail with it. Do surf and turf. And dessert, oh my gosh, anything creamy custardy, maybe a little bit of chocolate. I like a flan a flan, maybe like a tiramisu, I don't know. I have no idea. I really don't know. I have no idea. I really don't know. I think for me it depends on my mood of the day too.

Speaker 1: 1:43

Um, all right, we're going to move on to my stories. I think that's a great question, though it's difficult to pin down. It really is all right. Cool, let me go over to my twitter account. Oh my, I mean my x account. Excuse me all here. What do we have? Let's see. We are going to start with this. Miss Jasmine Crockett, oh my gosh. And, by the way, my co-worker, tim, is just now pulling up beside me, so I feel better now, all right.

Speaker 1: 2:18

Jasmine Crockett, oh my gosh. Now she's going off on Ted Cruz. I mean literally. She is literally and I hate that word is calling for violence against Ted Cruz. Tell me where I'm wrong. Tell me where I'm wrong in this, because I'm not. She is out there proving it all by herself. You don't need me to tell you, just go read the stories.

Speaker 1: 2:46

Representative Jasmine Crockett says Democrats need to be okay with punching in races against Ted Cruz. Now, I think she is doing this on purpose. I think she's going on all of these shows, podcasts, whatever, and she's using this language very strategically. I think she's doing it on purpose and then when she says it, once she says it, then she's like oh well, you know, I didn't mean it that way, that's not what I meant that way. Well, she's not Donald Trump. Donald Trump said let's walk peacefully and peacefully.

Speaker 1: 3:16

This is not what she is saying, so the dude has to be knocked over the head, like hard crockett said of cruz. I hope ted cruz is upping his security because he needs to, because these people are out of their ever loving mind. They don't have a loving mind. Let me back that up. They are out of their crazy, demented, evil ridden mind. You have reached your maximum number of articles. Oh wait, that's you have reached. That was. That's something else that is. I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1: 3:52

A representative already said that Crockett was blunt when asked how Democrats can win elections, specifically in the red state of Texas, reflecting on Representative Colin Allred's D-Texas loss to Senator Ted Cruz. I think you punch, crockett said. Now you can take that one or two ways. You can take that literal or you can take it as not literal, like getting ready to gear up to campaign really hard. Let's see. But you know she should not.

Speaker 1: 4:27

In the times like this, with people out there protesting in the streets of America, when they're setting Tesla dealerships on fire, when you have people stopping their car in the middle of the street, when they pull in front of you, stop their car, get out of their car, come up to your car and start berating you about the car you drive and telling you that it's a Nazi car, that you need to sell it. These people are wicked and they are dangerous and we don't need Jasmine Crockett out there fueling the fire with her ridiculous speech, the way she talks, and I swear to God, if Congress, if they don't do something about this, there needs to be some people writing and calling into their congressperson and demanding that they do something about her. Right, I don't know what censure means or what all that does. They need to remove her little ass out of there and get somebody else. This is we cannot have a sitting congressperson acting this way. Get out. All right, you can go. Finish reading that article. That's my take on it.

Speaker 1: 5:42

Now we're going to go over and talk about these tesla um terrorism rages on. Democrats will regret cheering as tesla terrorism rages on. Will they as jeffy say? Jeffy would say are they? Will they regret it? The dark night of political violence keeps getting predicted on the right while actually descending on the left. Here we go. Go again.

Speaker 1: 6:05

There's a campaign of terror against Tesla to protect Elon Musk's politics, oh, not to protect, excuse me, protest. Democrats aren't. Democrats aren't acting as if they intend to do anything. It's to stop it. Oh well, that's not our fault, that's not us. Meanwhile, you got little little miss jasmine over there egging it on. So shut up, it is you. Texas police found. Texas police found multiple incendiary devices at a tesla dealership in north austin hello, jasmine. Other explosives have been found in San Antonio, where the FBI is dispatching experts. The Justice Department, which has announced a task force there's been a new task force that has been created to start looking into this, to address the problem has already brought federal charges against a man in Salem, oregon of course it's Oregon armed with a suppressed AR-15 rifle, who was arrested after throwing approximately eight Molotov cocktails.

Speaker 1: 7:15

I need to know where that name comes from Molotov cocktails. It sounds like something Carrie Bradshaw would order in a scene in Sex and the City. Where does that come from? So, yeah, you can go finish reading that. Terrorism is the use of violence in it to in a scene in Sex and the City. Where does that come from? So, yeah, you can go finish reading that. Terrorism is the use of violence in it to achieve political ends. Yeah, we know what that means when the government or people engage in politics. Okay, blah, blah, blah, blah. We know all that.

Speaker 1: 7:40

This article goes on and on and on. So if you want to read that, finish it up. What do you think? What do you think is? What do you think's behind that? We all know what it is. That is some crazy, crazy. I don't know that I'd want to be a Tesla owner right now. That'd be scary. To be out on the streets right now Not here, not where I live. People are going to leave you alone. Where we live is pretty red, all right.

Speaker 1: 8:02

This next story. Oh my gosh. Y'all Get ready, especially you gentlemen who grew up in the 70s and 80s idolizing and thinking nancy wilson was the hottest thing since sliced bread and sexy rock star guitarist girlfriend uh is coming out and saying that being american is embarrassing, wow, and my first thought after I read this is nobody's gonna care, especially the men. They are actually going to probably come out and try to defend Nancy over this because they all thought she was hot growing up and she was. I mean, I can't argue with that. I remember being a teenager back then and all the guys going goo-goo-ga-ga over Nancy Wilson and you know we girls could not argue with them because she was. You know we girls could not argue with them because she was Okay.

Speaker 1: 8:55

Nancy Wilson of the popular rock band Heart has come under fire for claiming it's more embarrassing than ever to be an American. The Barracuda singer 71 years old now, by the way made the controversial claim during an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel earlier this month. But it finally started making waves on X on March 24th. We were kind of embarrassed at that time to call ourselves American because the dirty politics of the Vietnam War, she said while discussing the band's hit 1975 song Crazy on you. To be as subtle as possible, she added it's more embarrassing now. Oh, nancy, nancy, nancy.

Speaker 1: 9:36

But Wilson's remarks were not taken lightly and both fans and critics slammed the wealthy singer for her contentious comments about the country, says the millionaire who made tons of dough playing music on X scoffed I just can't with these people right now. Oh, this. Next, this next pair, this next sentence language the bitch is welcome to find more suitable country for her needs. Another angry critic wrote I'm willing to wager on the makeup of the country. Should she be a woman of her convictions, stop playing 80s music, heart music, and it's not as embarrassing. The third ex quipped it's embarrassing to be a heart fan right now. Another former backer of the band Others instructed Wilson to ditch the US. If she's that embarrassed, then leave. You won't be missed. One person said Elsewhere in the interview Wilson discussed the band's 1970 song Barracuda and how the tune is about a real sleazeball with a satin jacket who wanted to make more money out of the sexy chicks in heart throughout the group's career oh interesting.

Speaker 1: 10:54

Of the sexy chicks in heart throughout the group's career oh interesting. She added the that barracuda in particular is even more relevant in the salacious billionaire culture on the grab them by the grab them by the p-u-s-s-y mentality. This is her talking and I'm sure this. Obviously she's referencing the billionaire donald trump. Oh my gosh, she is not a Trump or she's not a fan of Trump. Oh, I think for women in the culture, the pendulum will come back again and there will be another renaissance in the arts. Okay, blah, blah, I don't care what about.

Speaker 1: 11:26

So I've started discussing this with my husband and sure enough, he kind of defended. Now he's going to say he did not do, he's not defending her. His problem was with the article and the article writer. I love the way he kind of slid this in sideways and talking about how it was the writer's fault because all he all the writer did was pull quotes from X and there's no such thing as journalism anymore. You know, anybody can write a post like that. All you got to do is, if that's what you're calling journalism now, just going to x and pulling quotes. What? That's not your job. And so he said it. Maybe the article just shouldn't even been written. Then I'm like, oh, you're proving my point. Now I he cannot defend himself right here.

Speaker 1: 12:10

So we may talk about this on our podcast called Brute Awakening that we put out every Sunday, all right, so my question of the day, my question of the day is is there a rock star, a celebrity, a movie star, somebody famous that you really like? If they were to come out and say something against Trump, would you boycott their, their uh, movie, songs or whatever. I would not. I'm still going to listen to Heart. I still watch George Clooney movies. Um, I still watch Barbara Streisand movies and listen to her music, so that does not bother me in the least. Um, and I couldn't. I couldn't boycott Bud Light because I don't drink. The only thing I can boycott was Ulta. I have not shopped Ulta since Dylan Mulvaney came out and was on their podcast talking about being a girl when he's not. And when I found that out, I stopped. I cut up my Ulta card, never shopped there again. I know one little person like me is not gonna make a difference, but it made me feel better. Okay, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all. Bye.