Biden Or Trump-- Who is Better For The Auto Industry?

You know what they, you know what they say?

What do they say?

They say not to talk politics.

Oh, here we go.

Why do they say that, though? Because I always tell people, like I, I'm happy to talk politics. People say, don't talk religion and don't talk politics. And I'm always of the opinion you could change my mind. I don't know it all. And so people get super polarized, like, oh, you're wrong and you don't know what you're talking about. But then they lack, they lack any insight that isn't from tv.

Right.

And so I want to be careful when we're talking about what candidate would be better for the industry that it isn't about, you know, oh, they're going to take your guns or whatever the latest little fear factor is, and we're talking about actual business. What's better for the industry, not which candidate do we like more. That makes sense.

You know, my answers are probably going to surprise you a little bit because I'm sure everybody who's heard me on this show, probably you being for Trump.

Does not surprise me one bit.

No, I. Do you want me to answer the question as well?

Yeah. So who's, who's better, Biden or Trump? For our industry, Transportation.

I believe that Biden will be better for our industry.

See, I told you. Shocker. You heard it here first.

When did you, when did you decide on this?

Couple hours ago.

As I was processing through, you know, our pre shoot meeting that we go through. But a couple of things. I think one thing with Trump and the word is chaos. And yes, the economy is probably going to take off again and he'll take us to places we've never been. But I think there's a lot of fear based around him getting reelected from the masses. And I think when I look back at, you know, Clinton's tenure, Obama's tenure, although they were not my candidates or my choice, they had very stable economic models in place. And I think that it might be better, you know, Biden may be better for our industry.

Silence.

Wow.

Is this my last show with you guys? Did I just get fired?

No, Like, I, Jeremy, I don't, I don't think that politics aren't polarizing for me. I think it, I think it's, it's ridiculous that anybody would be so polarized that they think they're in the White House, they're briefed by the CIA, they know everything that's going on. But when it comes to politics, we know what they let us know. But you go back and read old CIA or just go back and watch the documentary on Obama in the last year, and they talk about how they managed what we knew.

Right.

And so I think that these sort of things are way easier looking back four years from now than they are right now, because decisions now are made emotionally.

Yeah.

And.

So there's not. There's nothing you could say about that that would.

I'm just curious why we only have two choices.

Well, that's my point.

Right.

Neither one of the choices represent how I feel.

I would agree with that.

What do you think, Christian?

Well, I think a couple of things with this. One is, I wouldn't say that I'm educated enough on politics to be able to have, like, a really, really good discussion with somebody about it. And that's probably on purpose. But the other thing I would say is that our industry is so beautiful that when I think back to my first back in the 90s, would you.

Describe our industry like a hot chick?

I might. You never know. But when I think back to the 90s, when I first got into the industry, and that. That first month where I sold a bunch of cars because I had no idea what I was doing, I don't remember getting that first paycheck and saying, thank God, Slick Willie. I couldn't have done this without you. Right. Like, so the President of the United States.

Slick Willie being Bill Clinton.

Yeah.

So. So the President of the United States. I have to interpret for the audience. Thank you. Everyone's back. But the President has never determined my paycheck. And I think that's the beautiful thing about our industry is no matter who is running it, there's so much opportunity for success that it doesn't really matter to me who's president, but because I know that we can be successful either way.

Yeah.

So I think that that's kind of like my thing.

We can only do what we can control. Right. We can control the customer experience. We can control our attitude, how hard we work, our focus, our adaptability. Yep. Our adaptability. That's a good one. But I really feel, especially living in California, that I have any effect on the presidential race whatsoever. Cause it's gonna vote Democrat. It doesn't. It doesn't matter. I will say, living here in. In Los Angeles, in California, that the Democrats running this state are terrible leaders. Terrible leaders. Something. I don't know. I'm sure in history, it's happened before, but in my lifetime, I've never experienced leadership so bad.

And so blind.

Like.

It'S insane. What's happening down here. Crime is rising, people are looting. It's.

You know, the rest of the country and even our friends north of the border in Canada. Absolutely. Just laugh at California. And it's, I go back to when we elected Schwarzenegger as our governor and then, you know, put Jerry Brown back in office and I mean all, it's, it's crazy. There is no help for California. And I look at like what we've gone through with our kids at school right now, the amount of money our schools have wasted in programs that are designed to help people that have really no effect. And it's, I'm sure it's billions of dollars. And you know that that's the interesting part of okay, socially, do we take care of everybody? And then capitalists, which is okay, well let's do, let's help, but let's be profitable when we do it as well. Right. So it's very interesting that you say that. I noticed that, you know, outside on the bridge here, the homeless actually are starting to build houses. There's lumber hanging over the freeway from the tent city.

Yeah. Have you heard of that book, what's Going on in Kansas I think it's called. No, it's a great book about how the Republican party doesn't represent the people that actually vote Republican. And kind of the same thing like people like say for example, people in my family would vote Republican because they're die hard Christians, but the Republican policies don't help them whatsoever because they're blue collar, you know, working in the government sort of thing. And the, the thing with politics nowadays, and I've experienced it firsthand watching people that I know and that are friends lobby and get laws passed.

That most of what's happening in government doesn't represent the people. It's big money, like the packs and all that. It's huge money. And those, if you want to be a senator or congressman, you, you, you have to play to that. And so you're not really representing the people that vote for you very much, if at all. And I, I personally think the fix is you have to get rid of all of those packs and you have to limit if you limited what people could donate.

To what, you know, actually was, you know, cap people at a thousand. And you didn't allow any of those packs. They're anonymous too. Like you don't know who's in those packs.

Right.

So if you eliminated those, then the money that was raised would be more in line with what the people actually believe and you'd have more Voice. But I think most of the people don't have a voice today because it's. It's driven by. By the commerce and the big companies.

And I mean, go back to the founding fathers. What if government went back to serving where senators and congressmen didn't get paid? What if they had to earn their living out in the real world and they just served their time? You wouldn't have people sitting in Congress for 20 and 30 years. You'd have them go and do their service, fix things, and then go back to work. And it would be a government, you know, of the people, for the people, by the people, however they say that.

That sounded really good.

Yeah. Also the thing too, with like, the police and all that, like, defund the police. Like, the police need more training and more resources. You need more police and you need to train them better. Like, they need to. I don't know. What do you think a police. Police person, man or woman, should do in training a year?

Oh, like, I mean, what they should do? Yeah, 120 hours a year.

What do you think they do?

Eight?

I don't know.

Yeah, it's like a week. Yeah, something like that.

So maybe 40.

Well, in. I heard Jocko talk about it.

He.

He was proposing every fifth day.

I. I think that's. Oh, that's a.

That's actually really good. That sets 20%.

You know, the path we're going down is anarchy in the streets. And it's really scary when you think about the. And I. I've got to be very careful. I'm not going to be careful with what I say, but if you defund the police, who's going to control the masses and who's going to. You know, we deal with it every day at our shop. We're not in the best area. You know, there's drug addicts, there's homeless, and there's really not a strong police presence in our area. And when you take that away and if crime starts to become rampant, then there's going to be a time where people stand up and say, enough is enough, and they're going to take the law into their own hands and people are definitely going to get hurt when that happens.

So I. Yeah, and then there's no system for it.

There's no.

Right. And that's. That's the part that scares me.

So I think that's the part about Biden that scares me, is he placates to that far left, because that's his. You know, that's.

But do you think that's more campaigning where he has to go there now to get elected. So he's going to go as far to that side as he can. But the reality of it is, if he's in office, is that actually ever going to take place? I mean, there's never been a politician that said one thing before the election and went and did the exact opposite afterwards. Right.

That's politics 101.

It's interesting that that's your take on it. You know, I'd be curious to what our audience thinks. And you know, if you're so polarized that you can't have a discussion about this, please don't comment because I'm not looking for that. I'm looking for a real discussion and something articulate and thought out. But I'd be curious what you guys think. I personally believe, I think at the end of the day I would lean more Trump. Like I said, neither one represent me, but I think Trump's more pro business and more about the police and law and order.

I like what he said.

Focus on what you can control. Realize that whoever does get put into office is not really going to have a huge effect on your outcome. It's your actions and what you do with the tools in front of you.

That, yeah, what you said to adaptability ends up being the most important. Yeah. I'd be curious, though. Post in the comments and let us know how you feel. Maybe we'll talk about this again if somebody says something articulate. Thank you so much for watching this clip of Service Drive Revolution. Now you can catch the full episode on YouTube, iTunes or Spotify or where you consume your podcast. If you have any questions, go ahead and post them in the comments below. Make sure you subscribe and hit the bell icon so you're notified when we post new episodes. I'm Chris Collins and you can find me on Facebook and Instagram @chrisbulldogcollins and I'll see you again on the next episode.