Everything's Wrong With The "Doordash Grandma" Story

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[00:00:00]Uh, I do want to do a sto a segment about Door Dash Grandma because as many of you know, uh, I drove for these gig apps for many years. And so I have some some notes, uh, for this segment that I think you might find, uh, valuable.

[00:00:15]>> Yeah, >> I hope so. So, uh, here is Donald Trump getting a Door Dash delivery to the Oval Office because don't forget, he kind of called this press conference like impromptu and it was like breaking news, breaking news. Donald Trump called the president.

[00:00:31]>> It was It was right after I did my show.

[00:00:33]It was right after I did my Monday.

[00:00:34]That's why I had to edit it because I had to respond to this quickly because of just how absurd this was.

[00:00:39]>> Yeah. So, calling a press conference in the Oval Office, people were like concerned. Is there going to be some big news about the war? Is there going to be a big announcement? Turns out that was probably just a setup for this because obviously they needed the Door Dash grandma to come and give him his McDonald's as part of the one-year anniversary of the uh no tax on tips initiative. So, uh let's take a look at this video.

[00:01:12]>> Nice to meet you.

[00:01:13]>> Nice to meet you. I told you Mr. President.

[00:01:20]>> This doesn't look staged. It does it.

[00:01:22]>> They're all your favorites.

[00:01:24]>> These are good is doing a good job.

[00:01:28]>> So the reason for >> So he's given away there. I mean he's being very tongue and cheek about it because it's obviously staged. They have the camera, but he says this doesn't look staged. And we're going to see it's even more staged than it looks.

[00:01:39]>> They're all your favorites.

[00:01:40]>> These are good. The rest is doing a good job.

[00:01:43]>> McDonald So, the reason for this is the fact that I heard you picked up an extra $11,000 that you didn't think because the tax bill was so big, the refund was the biggest you've ever had. Is that a correct state?

[00:01:57]>> It it definitely was.

[00:02:00]>> Yeah. I I saved over $11,000 by not having a claim.

[00:02:05]>> Was that surprising to you?

[00:02:07]>> It was very surprising. Very surprising.

[00:02:09]>> Great big beautiful bill. And that doesn't include overtime in your case.

[00:02:13]This is only just based on what we did in terms of >> Yeah. I I don't know what these numbers are. From what I heard, the no tax on tips applied to $25,000 worth of tips, which the tax on that is only about what, five or six grand, whatever it is.

[00:02:29]Um maybe even less depending on like other deductions that you you have. Um but so I don't know where she cuts the 11,000 number. That could have been like an overall tax thing. You'd have to drive a whole lot of Door Dash to save 11 grand on taxes. It's one thing to say I didn't have to declare 11 grand worth of income that I buy. But to save 11 grand on taxes, that's a lot. That that is a whole lot. Obviously, we don't know her financial situation. We can't make any factual claims about her. But that seems like a very big number that she saved $11,000.

[00:03:02]>> Also, let's let's look at at how sad this is, too. Imagine you like work your butt off in culinary school. You go through the grind of being a chef and you actually get the most top tier position in the White House and this man or nothing but McDonald's. You're there and you just realize you have all these skills and you're nothing. You're nothing. You have a whole team of people that could make you any kind of meal you want in the White House kitchen and this and orders McDonald's. either one that chef is terrible or two just Trump is addicted to McDonald's and just just how he's alive after consuming so much of that product not food product because that's what the CEO called it uh is is a miracle upon itself and then look you got somebody somebody's grandma like this is not a feel-good story of grandma doing your dash >> oh we got trust me I got plenty of material on that don't worry we will get into that plenty >> every other aspect of the dash right >> yes sir >> so it was 11,000 something.

[00:04:01]>> Yes.

[00:04:01]>> Isn't that incredible?

[00:04:03]>> And that's what it is. Tax cut. It's really, you know, we call it the great big beautiful bill. We should call it the great big beautiful tax cut bill.

[00:04:11]>> To save $11,000 in taxes, you'd have to make like what?

[00:04:17]$40,000 in tips. As I understand, the tax thing doesn't even cover that much in tips. I I don't understand how they get to that number.

[00:04:24]>> It's a tremendous amount of money, and that's overtime. That's also on social security as you know.

[00:04:30]>> Yes.

[00:04:31]>> And uh it's pretty amazing.

[00:04:33]>> Okay. Now, there is no overtime when you're a Door Dash driver. So Trump says that's o that's not counting overtime.

[00:04:39]Uh Door Dashers are independent contractors. You don't get overtime. You don't get overtime. You can work as much or as little as you want, but there is no overtime pay because you're not an employee. So, uh he's not he's not very well verssed in this.

[00:04:52]>> Yes, I am.

[00:04:53]>> You're really nice. Would you like to do a little news conference?

[00:04:57]No people and they're not nice like you know right >> I'll do whatever you ask me to do sir.

[00:05:04]>> So the no jacks on chips is something special.

[00:05:07]>> It's very special >> and that's wonder.

[00:05:11]>> Yes.

[00:05:12]>> Fantastic. So such an honor to meet you and I think you voted for me.

[00:05:17]>> Maybe.

[00:05:18]>> Yeah.

[00:05:19]>> Maybe you voted for me.

[00:05:22]I'll put this over here and why don't we have a news conference with the president?

[00:05:27]>> Let's have a news conference. You know, I'm feeling lucky. I'm on such a hot streak lately. You know, everything's breaking my way lately. Let's uh let's put you in front of the camera. Let's do a little news conference. Huh.

[00:05:37]>> Operation Human Shield.

[00:05:40]>> Yeah, I'm feeling really lucky. I'm feeling really lucky. So, here we go.

[00:05:44]First question out of the gate. He asks her, "Do you think men should play in women's sports?" And she says, "I don't have an opinion on that." She leaves him hanging.

[00:05:54]>> Playing in women's sport. Do you think that men should play in women's sports?

[00:05:58]>> I really don't have an opinion on that.

[00:06:01]>> You don't? I'll bet you do.

[00:06:02]>> She leaves them hanging.

[00:06:04]>> Attacks on tips.

[00:06:06]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:06:08]>> Actually, I'm trans myself.

[00:06:13]>> I just registered for the senior flag football league.

[00:06:17]>> Yeah. It turns out you need a Wayne Wim wing bone balls >> actually. Yeah. If you think Breijg Mcronone is packing, why don't we go into the bathroom? I'll show you something you bet you weren't expecting.

[00:06:30]>> Whoa, you're bigger than Bubba.

[00:06:35]Oh, but oh man, it's just it's so pathetic. Like this is all they have at this point is the men and women's sports. He keeps going to that over and over again.

[00:06:43]>> Men playing in women's sport. Do you think that men should play in women's sports?

[00:06:48]I really don't have an opinion on that.

[00:06:50]>> You don't? I'll bet you do.

[00:06:51]>> No, I'm I'm here about >> tax on tips.

[00:06:56]>> I'm just here to talk about what I was sent here to talk about. I don't have an opinion on nothing else, Mr. President.

[00:07:03]And don't you get me started on them Jews.

[00:07:07]Don't you go ask me about them Jews and them Arabs. I tell you, from where we come from, we ain't finding none of them.

[00:07:14]>> You got to be quiet about the about the Jews thing. GB will get a hotline. He'll bomb the White House and say it was Iran.

[00:07:21]>> We ain't like none of them kind where I come from. So don't ask me about that, please. You might create more problems for yourself than you already have. Uh well, let's see what else happens. Oh yeah, Trump gets put on the spot over whether he's a good tipper or not.

[00:07:39]>> Oh, >> he saves himself real quick. Here we go.

[00:07:43]Do you know?

[00:07:44]>> Um, >> wait.

[00:07:46]>> Are the White House good tippers? Do you know?

[00:07:48]>> Um, >> wait.

[00:07:51]>> Potentially.

[00:07:52]>> Quick.

[00:07:53]>> Yes. Very >> cash ready.

[00:07:57]>> Thank you. You reminded me of >> he was not going to tip her. If he didn't remind her, he was not going to tip her.

[00:08:04]>> Well, of course, they tip on the apps with the food apps, but you know, he didn't order this. He's just he's he's uh, you know, he's just playing along.

[00:08:12]He's playing his part there.

[00:08:13]>> Be like, "Yeah, damn it. I didn't want to tip her because" Because he probably tells the people who order food on the apps, don't tip at all.

[00:08:20]>> No. Yeah. Uh, so here she is being interviewed about this thing. Uh, Trump flew Sharon Simmons. So, here it go. So, it's it's more of a setup than you think. Trump flew Sharon Simmons from Arkansas to DC to make a fake Door Dash delivery where he used her husband's cancer to claim his Jesus picture was signaling that he's a healer. Yeah, that was the same press conference. You can't make this [ __ ] up. So, here she is telling a little bit more about about herself.

[00:08:50]>> The world's most famous Door Dash delivery.

[00:08:54]>> Um, maybe.

[00:08:56]I don't know that I would ever be able to say that I've delivered to anybody else that's been more high-profile.

[00:09:03]>> How was President Trump?

[00:09:05]>> Very, very kind.

[00:09:07]>> Do you like the Oval?

[00:09:08]>> Oh, it was beautiful.

[00:09:10]>> It's your first time meeting with president?

[00:09:12]>> Yes.

[00:09:13]>> First time in DC.

[00:09:15]>> Did you vote for him?

[00:09:16]>> Um, I have.

[00:09:18]>> Mhm.

[00:09:18]>> Yep.

[00:09:19]>> In the last election?

[00:09:21]>> Well, I was I was actually moved so um I hadn't had a chance. Perfect. Change my perfect >> my uh voter registration. But you know, again, this is about >> uh no tax on tips. And >> actually, I I had this interesting Door Dash delivery come in November of 2020 where I I went and I picked up a few boxes worth of envelopes and was told to deliver them uh to a masked man in a mailbox right outside of Philadelphia.

[00:09:53]and uh he just gave me a $100 bill and says I'll take it from here. And so I thought, hm, this is a little strange, but I guess whatever. Whatever. I marked the delivery completed and I got my wages. So I just I just moved on.

[00:10:07]>> If they got the cash, I don't ask.

[00:10:12]>> Oh boy.

[00:10:14]>> That's that's really what I'm here for.

[00:10:15]>> Where do you leave now?

[00:10:16]>> She was she door dashed a bunch of fake ballots in 2020 to cost Trump the election. That would be a twist. Yeah, that'd be funny. That That would have been funny.

[00:10:24]>> I was featured in the Desh Duza film 2000 mules. You may have you may have remembered me from that time.

[00:10:32]>> I was I was Shadow Fox.

[00:10:36]>> Exactly. Oh, crazy crazy times. Just gets crazier and crazier. Hey, it gets even crazier. It gets even crazier. So, Gen Xirl says, "Why is everything staged today?" Trump staged a Door Dash delivery where Sharon Simmons delivered his McDonald's. Trump used Simmons husband's cancer to claim his Jesus pick was Trump the healer. In July of 2025, Simmons appeared in Congress to support Trump's one big beautiful bill. Sharon Simmons sure does get around for a Door Dasher. So, you see, looks like the same woman there, right? And you think, well, where'd you get that video from? Well, she pulls this video from July 2025.

[00:11:20]We're a member of Congress here. David Kustoff says, "During the Ways and Means uh GOP field hearing in Nevada, I had the privilege of hearing from Sharon Simmons about how the one big beautiful bill will make a real difference in her life. As a mother and caregiver, she shared how this tax relief will help her and her family. Her story is just one of thousands across America who are finding financial breathing room thanks to the House GOP." So, I guess this wasn't in Congress. It was at a congressional event in uh Nevada. So, let's take a look at this >> appearing today. You gave heartfelt testimony. If you can, and you don't know what you don't know, but from your perspective, what do you think this bill is ultimately going to mean for you and the savings that you're going to have?

[00:12:10]Well, again, um I believe that um you know, it's it's going to free up some stuff for me. Um it means that I'm going to be able to stay more connected with my family um in Missouri. Um it's going to help with um any future u treatments.

[00:12:32]God forbid that he has to have more treatments, but it it will help more with that. um you know it is truly Door Dash is truly a um independent you know industry and I enjoy that part of it. Um I like being able to you know just do what I need to do and freeing up this extra money um means quite a bit to my family.

[00:13:02]>> And Miss Simmons do you consider yourself to be wealthy or wellconed?

[00:13:06]>> Not at all.

[00:13:08]Thank you very much. Thank you all for appearing and Mr. Chairman, I'll yield back.

[00:13:12]>> Okay. So, obviously these tips are not going to make a dent in cancer treatment. And look, hey, I don't have Trump derangement syndrome. I support no tax on tips. I think it's a good policy, but as I'm going to demonstrate, it's hard to believe the savings are adding up to the extent that they are, especially given the labor situation at at Door Dash and the actual income that you earn at Door Dash, which I'll get into in there. There's another factor in here, too. This is the internet we're talking about. And now that her her image and story is on the internet, you better believe that there are going to be people who have nothing but time on their hands digging into her story and looking into her, okay? People who have nothing better to do. They have now are going to be focusing on whether or not there's veracity and truth in her statement. So, um, if they find something that isn't quite, uh, how do you say kosher, uh, yeah, she's gonna be put on blast. she probably this being with Trump is going to cost her more than she realizes. And I think at the end of the day, anyone who who is is in Trump's fear is going to get stuck with that curse of uh the the Trump not derangement syndrome, but the Trump downfall situation. So, um let's let's find out just really how authentic her story is.

[00:14:25]>> Well, I mean, I don't doubt that she is a Door Dasher and that she, you know, has a sick husband. I just I I don't know where they get this $11,000 from, but we I'll get into that. I'll get into something doesn't add up here. Okay. I'm just saying just like again, anyone that that becomes a big darling to the media or that gets a lot of front and center just like what is it? Um what's it Palm Beach Pete? You know that that that situation like people are going to be looking more into into this. And so she's there now. And the story I mean it looked to me staged and of Gen Xirl.

[00:14:55]>> Well, it's definitely staged. I mean they definitely flew her in. This was definitely pre-arranged as I mean that's pretty much Trump basically admitted that >> himself. The the the detail I find very peculiar is the $11,000 number and I'll get into why. I'll kind of demonstrate why I'm I'm skeptical of that. Um but let's hear her tell a little bit more of her story. So this is in a Fox interview um after this uh stunt took place.

[00:15:19]>> Does this no tax on tips mean to you? I I don't know what the structure of payment is there at Door Dash. how much you get in salary per delivery and then how much is of your income is is tips.

[00:15:30]Can you kind of break it down to us and tell us what this no tax on tips really means for you?

[00:15:34]>> Well, what this really means for me is, you know, um as they said last year my husband um he uh was diagnosed with stage three cancer and >> during that time um you know I was able to take some time and take him to his appointments and you know be there with him. But, you know, as you know, going through treatment, even with insurance, you kind of break the bank. Um, and you know, we pretty much went through our savings. And so when I when I found about found out about the no tax on tips, I was like, "This is incredible because this, you know, it's not going to replace my life savings, but it's going to help certainly with future um doctor's appointments and future things that, you know, we we have going on."

[00:16:25]>> Sure. How much would Oh, go ahead.

[00:16:27]Sorry.

[00:16:27]>> It it just it means a lot. How much would >> Okay, so that's a little more background. Husband diagnosed stage three cancer. It's wiping out our savings. Cancer wipes out people's savings in this country. Great, great country that we have here where if you get cancer, you lose your house, you lose everything. Um, so Arnold Bertrron put it really well. He says, "The most [ __ ] up aspect of this uh is the Door Dash grandma t-shirt she's wearing and the implications of this. I checked and this is a pre-organized PR stump between Door Dash and the White House. They boast about it on their website. They even cut an ad for it, which we'll see in a minute. The lady, Sharon Simmons, grandmother of 10, who has completed more than 14,000 deliveries, isn't even from DC. They brought her over from Arkansas as a prop for this. M think about just how uniquely rotten things need to be in order for this to happen.

[00:17:23]She is literally a grandmother relying on gig work because she can't afford health care for her husband's stage three cancer. She doesn't even get paid a living wage and needs to rely on tips.

[00:17:34]And as an independent contractor, she gets no benefits, no healthare, no retirement. That's right. which means she is an almost perfect illustration of the failure of the American social contract on almost every level. Health care, labor rights, retirement, wages, etc. Any decent human being looked at her story, let alone policymakers should feel only one thing, shame. Yet Door Dash and the White House looked at this woman and saw a photo op. They flew her from Arkansas, branded her Door Dash grandma, and used her as a mascot for a tax tweak, no tax on tips, that wouldn't even begin to cover her husband's chemo sessions. Watching the actual video of her delivery to Trump is almost unreal.

[00:18:25]Trump opens up by saying, smiling at the camera, "Who says it looks staged? It doesn't." They immediately proceed to do a joint press conference to a bunch of journalists who were conveniently standing right there. None of the questions that follow during the next 15 minutes are related to Simmons's situation who just stands there.

[00:18:44]journalists, the president, and cameras, all obsessing over culture wars and the actual war in Iran, while the walking embodiment of the country's deepest structural failures. Yes, healthc care, labor, retirement, stand silently in a corporate t-shirt, unmentioned and too uncomfortable to confront. Yes, it reminded me a lot of this. Remember George W. Bush in that famous recording where the woman's talking about how she works three jobs and he says that's uniquely American. That's great. Here it is.

[00:19:17]>> Pumper to know that the promises made will be kept by the government. You don't have to worry.

[00:19:23]>> That's good because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute.

[00:19:27]>> You work three jobs.

[00:19:29]>> Three jobs. Yes.

[00:19:30]>> Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're No.

[00:19:35]>> Yeah, it is uniquely American. I don't know how fantastic it is.

[00:19:39]>> Get any sleep?

[00:19:41]>> Get any sleep? No. Work till you're dead, people.

[00:19:44]>> Yep.

[00:19:45]>> Puritanical logic of the Puritans who also were the pilgrims, folks. Work, work, work. Get close to God. Work, work, work till you're dead. And what's everybody's favorite death best confession. Oh, I wish I didn't work so much. I wish I spent more time with my family. Work, work, work till you're dead, folks. Work, work, work. Get close to God. The Puritanical Pilgrim. And by the way, the Puritans were not persecuted. They were told to get out and we got tired of their sight. So yeah, Door Dash did make an ad out of this. Door Dash did stage this. Most deliveries don't end at the White House.

[00:20:17]This one did. They definitely touted it.

[00:20:20]Now, let's take a look at the reality of driving for Door Dash. And I drove for Door Dash as well as the other gig apps.

[00:20:27]I drove for GrubHub. I drove for Uber. I drove for Instacart. I mean, I've I've driven for all of these apps. So, I could tell you kind of how it works. So, truth out. This was back in uh what was this 2019 or 2020? I think this article is from 2020, which is about the time that I was driving for them. I I drove for Door Dash from like I don't know 2019 through like 2023.

[00:20:50]Um then I got, you know, lucky enough to the point where I didn't have to do it anymore because of our wonderful supportive audience. So, thank you all for saving me from this. Uh, Door Dash drivers make an average of $145 an hour analysis finds. That's right.

[00:21:06]$145 an hour. So, this is where I get a little skeptical of the $11,000 claim.

[00:21:12]This is why. All right. So, we're going to get into this a little bit just so you see what I'm talking about. The national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not changed in a decade. And there is widespread agreement that it is far below what constitutes a living wage anyway. As if the statistics on the federal minimum wage weren't dismal enough, leave it to Silicon Valley to figure out innovative ways to pay workers even less. A new in-depth quantitative study released this week as part of a worker campaign in collaboration with the worker rights nonprofit Working Washington found that contract delivery workers for food delivery company Door Dash earn $145 per hour on average after other expenses are accounted for. So what are the other expenses? There are several. There's the phone. There's, you know, when you are an independent contractor, you take deductions on your taxes. So what your gross income is is not necessarily your net income. In fact, if you run a business, it is never your net income since you always have some expenses, right? So the main expense for people who drive for a living is the mileage expense. So the mileage deduction. So 2025 mileage rate. So, standard mileage rates for 2025 for self-employed and business, 70 cents per mile. So, in other words, for every mile that you drive as a gig worker that you're on the clock and and logged into the app, you deduct 70 cents of that on your taxes, on your income. That's very, very important because that is what affects what these real wages are. So, if we're doing numbers, the average Door Dasher earns between like $18 and $22 an hour.

[00:23:00]So, if we use big round numbers and we just figure you drive five hours, you earn $20 an hour, you make $100, that's essentially normal, I could say, as a driver. As I got better at it, you I got a to the point where I was making a little more than that, but this is kind of average.

[00:23:19]So, the key to driving gig work is to minimize the number of miles that you put on the car while maximizing the amount of money. And and what what constitutes a good order versus a bad order is the tip. So, you'll get an offer from Door Dash that you don't have to take. And it'll tell you right up front, okay, you're driving five miles and you're making $8. So, you're making about $160 a mile. Some that's about average. Some are better. Some are, hey, you're only going to drive a mile and a half and you're going to make $7. That's almost $5 a mile. There are a lot of offers that are real garbage that are, hey, you're going to drive 10 miles and you're going to make $8.50.

[00:24:03]And if you don't know enough not to take those offers or to hold out for the better offers, then your profit, your earnings, which are your taxable earnings, can be next to zero. So, let's say you do a good job. You know, $2 a mile is considered good. So, you earn $100 in five hours and you only drove 50 miles. So, you're earning $2 for every mile you put on the car. That's considered pretty good.

[00:24:29]>> Yeah.

[00:24:30]>> Even in that good scenario, your $20 an hour gross is only $13 an hour wage because you're going to deduct >> 70 cents per mile times 50 miles. So, you're deducting $35 from that, which means you're only declaring or you're only responsible for $65 as your sort of net wages. And this is using big round number in real realistically, it's going to be a little less than that because you're going to take other deductions like your phone bill because you're probably paying for unlimited data, right? Uh all different kind of miscellaneous things. But generally, the mileage is a big one, right? So, if you do a good job and you earn $20 an hour and you only uh drive 50 miles for that $100, your real earnings are $13 an hour, which is not very good.

[00:25:16]>> No, that's if you do well.

[00:25:18]Let's say you do a dollar a mile. Let's say you drive a hundred miles, right?

[00:25:24]which a lot of people do earn about a dollar a mile cuz sometimes the restaurants are clustered in the middle of town and you have to drive like four miles out of town to deliver it to the person's house and then you got to dead head it back and do another four miles back into town to get the next order. So let's say at the end of the day you only earn $1 per mile. So you make $100 in five hours. That's $20 an hour, but you've driven 100 miles. At that point you're deducting $70 because it's.7 cents a mile. So at that point, your real earnings are only $30 in five hours. You're making $6 an hour at that point. At that point, you're earning less than minimum wage. Now, if you do less than an average job, because a lot of people just take any offers if you don't really know what you're doing that well. Let's say you put $125 on the car. Now, you're deducting $87.50 out of that $100 that you earn, which means your real earnings are $12.50.

[00:26:19]That's $ 250 an hour. If you live in a really rural area where you're really beating the hell out of the car and you're sp you're driving like crazy to get these orders filled and you end up putting 150 miles on the car for that $100. Well, now guess what? Now you're in the red because now you're deducting $105, which is 150 times.7, which means your real earnings are negative $1 an hour. In other words, according to the government, it's costing you a dollar an hour to be out there. So, when you look at this, even if you're doing a good job, even if you're crushing it, you're making about $13 an hour income-wise, which means when you drive Door Dash, you don't really earn a living. You don't really build wealth. You're basically borrowing money against the value of your car. That's essentially what it is. Like, yeah, it's useful.

[00:27:11]Like, back when things were uh tighter than they are now, you know, uh toward the end of the month, we'd figure out how much money we needed to get all the bills paid. At the beginning of the month, if we needed like $500 in the bank within 4 days, I could go out and I could just drive till I'm blue in the face to get that money in the bank. It's useful for that, but it's not useful in terms of actually like building wealth or actually like making a living. You're essentially borrowing money against the value of your car. Even if you do it well, as you can see, after taxes, you're earning very little, which makes the $11,000 savings figure.

[00:27:54]>> Not at all. seemed pretty dubious to me because you would have to earn a [ __ ] ton of money on Door Dash for that amount of savings to be what you're actually avoiding. Not avoiding, you're doing this legally, of course, as per the one big beautiful bill that you're actually saving on taxes.

[00:28:14]>> Okay? And like I said, the real numbers are a little more complicated than this, so this is not to be construed as financial or tax advice. I'm just trying to prove a point that um what you earn per hour on Door Dash is a much larger number than what your actual taxable income >> is. Um which is why it's such a horrific labor situation to be in to be relying on these gig apps because essentially what you're doing is you're beating the hell out of your car and you're borrowing money against the value of that vehicle. Uh because by the time you earn a decent amount of money, your car is going to be shot to [ __ ] and you're going to need to buy a new car. So you're borrowing the money that you spent on the car. That's essentially how that works. That's what this poor woman is forced to do to to pay for her to pay for her husband's cancer treatments. And this is supposed to be some feel-good story about how this stupid [ __ ] one big beautiful bill is really helping her out of a jam. Now, you know what would help her out of a jam? Funding a health care system, >> which we can't do because of war, which Trump admitted. We can't do healthare.

[00:29:14]We can't do Medicare, Medicaid, or daycare because of war. because of a war for Israel. Um, your numbers, you know what, Keen, mark my words. I think people are going to cite that as a source and be like, hey, you know, this guy came from Due Distance. He brought some very interesting about this joke.

[00:29:29]>> I did.

[00:29:30]I worked it out. I know how this goes.

[00:29:33]And again, that's a simplified version because there are other deductions, but basically that's it. The mileage deduction, by the way, when you take the mileage deduction, that includes gas and everything like that. Um, so it all goes into a mileage thing. So, you deduct based on how many miles you drove.

[00:29:49]>> I'd also go on on here as well and say like, look, I'm I'm working three jobs.

[00:29:53]I'm doing some gig jobs, too. And uh not nothing like Door Dash or Uber or anything like that, but you know, it's it's it's enough to where like, you know, it's this this is this is the American nightmare. And not to mention, God forbid you have someone that has cancer or medical issue or you're facing homelessness or legal issues. And this is this is just uh you know there's no way to survive. It's one step closer to the homelessness. And this is the pain and suffering that we're all dealing with because we're not being paid enough to live. And you know, I'm glad that I never had to witness my grandmother or my grandfather or my uncle Bernie um work at a Walmart or anywhere else.

[00:30:34]Especially, you know, they they the them passing away has left a very deep scar on my soul. But at least they live their lives in dignity and not had to, I guess, work their fingers to the bone.

[00:30:46]They were not rich. They were not wealth. They just were able to live, I guess, a very good life, save, survive the depression. And yet, here we are, and we are witnessing a time in which the Great Depression is going to seem like a walk in the park with the nightmare we're in. So, Door Dash grandma to the White House. Mr. President, Mr. President, the people are starving and working three jobs to make end meets. Can you give us a tip? Yeah, here's here's $5. I mean, if that report didn't even say anything, I guarantee she was not going to walk away with a tip. I would say that maybe that's maybe that's just me being cynical and mean, but there you go.

[00:31:20]>> I mean, the phrase Door Dash Grandma is so dystopian.

[00:31:24]>> Yeah.

[00:31:25]>> Like like that they would think to like put this on a shirt. You know what I mean? And like >> that's terrible. My grandma works for Door Dash for something good. Yeah, you're a Door Dash grandma. Like that should be a thing. This is what I mean.

[00:31:39]Like people just take for granted certain dynamics in this country that they wouldn't anywhere else in in in a civilized society. Um if your husband has cancer, their treatments are covered. You don't have to [ __ ] drive Door Dash and thank the emperor for letting you keep all your tip money so you can what? First of all, I don't buy this is another thing and I'm sure her husband is sick and I feel for this woman obviously. Um but uh how far is $11,000 going for cancer treatments?

[00:32:13]>> And cancer treatments are not cheap nowhere.

[00:32:15]>> Every month you got to pay those medical bills.

[00:32:18]>> So yeah, man. I mean, this whole this whole story is just uh [ __ ] from from from top to bottom. It's a very very bleak story. It's a very depressing story. And um I think you know people should sort of look under the the surface because obviously Door Dash is making a big ad campaign out of this.

[00:32:38]And by the way, the base pay on these Door Dash orders is very very low. Most of your income in Door Dash is tipped.

[00:32:45]The way it works is when you drive, and I won't go on and on about this because this might be dry and boring to some people, but not to others. And there are some people in our audience who do gig work, so they might know, or maybe this will help you get a little better at it.

[00:32:59]Um, you know, it it sends you an offer.

[00:33:04]It tells you where the restaurant is. It tells you where the delivery point is.

[00:33:08]It tells you the mileage, and it tells you the guaranteed pay. That guaranteed pay is base plus tip. So typically base pay, meaning what Door Dash is shelling out to you, >> is between two and four dollars per order >> and then the rest of it is tip. So if you get paid $7 an order, it's likely the scenario that maybe 250 of that is coming from Door Dash and 450 is the tip. And so hey, like I said, like I'm not down on the policy. like the fact that there are no tax on tips is definitely helpful since a majority of your income is uh tipped income. So, that's all well and good. Um but yeah, um it's it's still a very very precarious and I would say uh dreadful uh labor situation to to to be in. And I know because I was in it for many years.

[00:34:00]I drove these apps for for a long time >> and I got good enough at it to make it work a little bit. I mean, I wasn't earning anything really. I was earning enough to get the bills paid, you know, but after taxes, my income is very, very low because you [ __ ] drive around forever. You beat the hell out of your car. The best one for that is actually Instacart because Instacart, you spend a lot of time in the supermarket and a lot less time behind the wheel. So, it's it's more profitable. So, if anybody's thinking about getting into gig work, Instacart is actually the more profitable one.

[00:34:30]>> I've seen my fair share of people at Instacart. I got nothing but love for them, man. Because going to Walmart or Costco or Sam's Club and what they got to deal with. I mean, my god. Like, >> it's all right, man. You're on your feet. You're lugging [ __ ] in and out to the the store, loading the trunk, loading the unloading the car, delivering the stuff, uh you know, navigating your way around. It's tough, but you do end up making more because you spend a lot less time behind the wheel, so it keeps your mileage numbers kind of down.

[00:34:59]>> Yeah. You know, I've seen I've seen a couple people at Instacart at like Costco and they're they're like pulling like two flatbeds of like stuff, man.

[00:35:06]Like >> Oh, yeah.

[00:35:08]>> You know, it's like, you know, I I I usually move on my way. I'm like, "Hey, man. Somebody's working here."

[00:35:12]>> And your labor protections are garbage.

[00:35:15]They're next to nothing. I did an order at Instacart in a restaurant depot, which is like a big warehouse. You're lugging this [ __ ] around and then when I went to check out, the transaction wouldn't go through because the stuff wasn't priced according to what the customer ordered. And so I had to cancel the order. And for like 45 minutes of work, they paid me less than $10 for like a cancellation fee. Like Instacart will kick in a little bit of money to you if an order gets canceled through no fault of your own, but it's it's pennies. I mean, it's less than $10.

[00:35:47]>> We're getting back to the early 1900s because like, you know, again, the aftermath of World War II was the great error of the political system because when all the veterans came back, they wanted to work, own a home, then people were getting educated, people were traveling more, they were living the American dream, and the rich people were like, "Oh, these poor people are going to start an answer asking questions.

[00:36:08]These poor people are becoming the new money. These poor people are starting to wonder, could they make a better future?

[00:36:14]We got to convince them that this is all bad. We got to get rid of Glass Seagull.

[00:36:18]We got to get rid of all this livable wage. I mean, Jimmy Dor made the joke like there was a time when you could work a job at Sears and provide for a family of your wife, three kids, a dog, a cat, two cars, and go on vacation.

[00:36:30]Now, you can't do that.

[00:36:32]>> They don't They listen, they want to reverse everything. And I'm not saying FDR was a saint, but all this worker protections, everything, the aftermath of World War II, that was the biggest error.

[00:36:43]Damn. It's going to take us decades to get rid of this. We got to make these people dumb and poor again.

[00:36:48]>> Yeah. No, it is.

[00:36:49]>> And they'll do it, too. George Carlin was right. They're going to take it all away from us.

[00:36:52]>> They'll take it all away from you.

[00:36:54]That's right. He wasn't kidding. He wasn't kidding. Um, so yeah. So, that's the story behind Door Dash. Grandma, I don't want to sound like I'm coming down too hard on the lady. I feel for her in her situation and she's a worker and she's doing what she's got to do. But it is uh but I I there are certain parts of that story that just make me scratch my head as someone who did this. Where do you come up with $11,000? Yeah.

[00:37:17]>> In savings. I could see saying I don't have to pay there is 11,000 worth of income that I'm not that I can understand, but I don't understand where you get the 11 grand from. So, >> not saying they're not saying they're making it up, but they staged a lot of what's there. So, uh I don't know. I don't I don't buy all of it. I'll say that.

[00:37:34]>> And I do hope that her husband is able to defeat cancer. Rest in peace, Chandra, because I I hate cancer. And you know, just knowing what it does to a person and a family and their income uh and their living situation. I mean, after all, in America, one bad day at the hospital and you're on the verge of homelessness.

[00:37:51]>> Oh, forget it. Yeah. No, it's absolutely horrible. It's It's barbaric is what it is. Really is. Please clap.