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00:00I mean, are you trying to get me assassinated before this even happens?
00:03No, no, pick a line.
00:05So how did we end up here?
00:07These comments from Musk only partially ingest.
00:10The guy knows he's put a large target on his back.
00:12Many of them, in fact, disrupting multiple industries, calling out corrupt wolves, masquerading
00:18as politicians, speaking up on important issues.
00:20Oh, and then there was the whole acquiring Twitter, now X, which is aggressively siphoning
00:26viewers of the fake news, accelerating the death spiral of the legacy media.
00:31It's their own fault, but X is going to make this happen even faster.
00:35So Musk, not entirely joking here, the context was regarding his proposed involvement in
00:41a Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, and we'll come back to this
00:46in a moment.
00:47But the reason I bring this up today, another dangerously stupid moron has attempted to
00:53take out Donald Trump, also known as Orange Man Bad.
00:57Now I want to say something.
00:58When dangerously stupid people hear the same lie over and over and over, not only are they
01:06prone to believe it, by the way, totally unrelated matters, safe and effective, it's for your
01:10protection, not their quarterly profits, and what laptop?
01:12But these dangerously stupid people are often likely to take action based on this lie.
01:18Add to the mix the fact that there are many, many dangerously stupid and, key word here,
01:23unhinged people out there, and you have a recipe for disaster when you become an enemy
01:29of the hate stream media and or the establishment, although they're the same fucking thing.
01:33We're going to be dancing around a little bit today, but bear with me, folks.
01:37There is an overarching point.
01:38This posted on X, X recorded 22% year over year growth through the end of August, 22%.
01:47That's crazy.
01:48To illustrate just how fucking crazy 22% year over year growth is, if this were to occur
01:53for four consecutive years, the cumulative growth will be 10 times that number at about
02:00222%, the power of compounding.
02:04And I saw some guy who made an observation that I think I agree with.
02:08He said, these people are coming from legacy media who hate you and hate humanity.
02:13The hate stream media was already dying of self-inflicted wounds.
02:16X is accelerating their demise.
02:18They know this, their attacks on X and Elon Musk will only intensify until they take their
02:24final breath.
02:25Now, why would he talk about attacks on Elon Musk and X intensifying until the hate stream
02:30media completely vanishes?
02:32So again, today, just a few hours ago, another unhinged lunatic tried to take out Donald
02:39Trump.
02:40There's two attempts on this guy's life in a matter of weeks.
02:43But of course, I'm sure the rhetoric from the hate stream media has nothing at all to
02:46do with this, nor his political opponents.
02:49And what's the connection here?
02:50Well, here's a recent clip from Orange Man Bad himself, talking about Elon Musk's involvement
02:56in a government efficiency commission.
02:58Fourth, at the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement.
03:04That's nice.
03:05Smart guy.
03:06He knows what he's doing.
03:07He knows what he's doing.
03:09That's very, very much appreciated.
03:11I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial
03:16and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for
03:22drastic reforms.
03:23Need to do it.
03:24Can't go on the way we are now.
03:32And Elon, because he's not very busy, has agreed to head that task force.
03:37Be interesting.
03:38He has the time.
03:39He'll be a good one to do it.
03:41Fourth, at the suggestion.
03:42Let's just take a quick pause.
03:44Orange Man Bad, public enemy number one.
03:46Again, two extremely low testosterone, mentally deranged soy boys have attempted to take this
03:52guy out in the past few weeks, no doubt due to having the Orange Man Bad program installed
03:57in their malfunctioning brains from the hate stream media.
04:01And to be clear, I'm not holding the hate stream media responsible.
04:04It's the deranged soy boys who are responsible.
04:07However, the hate stream media, no doubt, have planted these seeds, had they not spent
04:11the last number of years saying that Orange Man Bad is a threat to democracy, comparing
04:15him to Hitler and so on.
04:17These kind of deranged lunatics would instead be posting about how they hate being an incel
04:20on Reddit and how women are the worst thing to ever exist.
04:24So just imagine that public enemy number one, Orange Man Bad, teams up with Elon Musk, public
04:29enemy number two, Elon Bad, Rocket Man Bad, billionaire bad, blah, blah, blah.
04:33But not only that, but together, Orange Man Bad plus Elon Bad signal their intent to gut
04:40the extremely bloated, inefficient, wasteful United States government of all its dead weight.
04:47Remember, Musk does have some experience doing this, shout out to buying Twitter and shit
04:51canning roughly 80% of the head count and suddenly, magically, miraculously, the service
04:56dramatically improves in the following 12 plus months with a fraction of the head count.
05:01He is the man for the job.
05:03And the final ingredient here, if it didn't get bad enough, not only are public enemies
05:07number one and number two teaming up to gut the government, but public enemy number two,
05:11Elon Bad, owns X, which is literally siphoning away at a staggering rate viewers of the hate
05:18stream media who have a further incentive to demonize both Orange Man Bad and Elon Bad.
05:23I wish I did not need to discuss this folks, but dangerous times are ahead.
05:27And if anyone out there still seems to be under the impression that the United States
05:31government, A, is not inefficient, B, is not corrupt, well, I saw this post from one
05:38of my favorite sufferers of TDS who nailed this one, our government is corrupt and stealing
05:44our money.
05:45Now just imagine by the way for a moment that you happen to be somebody within the United
05:49States government and you are corrupt and you are stealing the money of taxpayers and
05:53Orange Man Bad plus Elon Bad are going to be analyzing and dissecting the US government
05:58top to bottom for efficiency, waste, corruption, and theft.
06:02Yeah, nothing to say here, don't worry.
06:04So let's read.
06:05United Airlines just put Starlink on a thousand plus planes, but the FCC claims we need to
06:11spend five to $10,000 per rural home for wired connections.
06:15This is for internet.
06:17These homes are putting Starlink in on their nickel while they wait for a cable modem in
06:2210 years.
06:23What the fuck?
06:24Pure corruption or insane stupidity.
06:26You decide that in response to this from Brandon Carr, the Brandon Carr, you might
06:30remember this guy, commissioner of the FCC, Federal Communications Commission.
06:35This guy, this same guy dissented, spoke out against the FCC himself, taking a huge career
06:42risk when these fuckwits rescinded an agreement with Starlink to provide internet access to
06:47rural Americans.
06:48Now check this out.
06:49Brandon, recapping 2023, the FCC claims that Starlink is not capable of providing high
06:55speed internet to thousands of people as the reason for revoking an $885 million award
07:01to the company.
07:02Now, just to be clear, Starlink was capable.
07:04The reason that this award was rescinded is because of corruption from the Biden administration
07:10going after Elon.
07:11Bad public enemy number two.
07:12These are the facts.
07:13Unless your head's up your ass, you will accept this as accurate.
07:16I highly encourage people to dig into some of the details of this if you're a little
07:21skeptical.
07:22In short, there was an agreement.
07:23Starlink would provide internet access to rural Americans for a fraction of the cost
07:26anyone else could do it.
07:27Then suddenly out of absolutely nowhere, the FCC is like, oh, you know what?
07:30Yeah, no, fuck you.
07:31No money for you.
07:32You can't provide internet.
07:33You're not capable of doing it.
07:34In fact, we're going to spend multiples more money paying a bunch of other companies to
07:38do the same thing you could have done, but years later and for significantly higher cost.
07:42Because Elon bad.
07:43I mean, because not Elon bad.
07:45This isn't a Biden administration instruction.
07:48We have a good reason.
07:49Bye.
07:50Look over there.
07:51Distraction.
07:53Well, 2024, the FCC claims that Starlink provides so much high speed internet that the word
07:57monopoly should be tossed out there.
07:59Yeah, that's right.
08:00The FCC chair in 2024, quote, our economy doesn't benefit from monopolies.
08:05So we've got to invite many more space actors in many more companies that can develop constellations
08:10and innovations in space.
08:11Now, look, I don't have anything particularly that I strongly disagree with in her statement
08:16that competition isn't a good thing.
08:19It is right.
08:20Competition is great.
08:21It's pretty rich now coming from the FCC chair, implying that Starlink has a monopoly suggesting
08:28comprehensive coverage and market dominance, which is true.
08:32But hey, I mean, to be clear, SpaceX, owner of Starlink, is literally launching competitors
08:37constellations as well.
08:38It's not a monopoly in traditional sense.
08:41They've just executed the same FCC a year earlier doing a massive backflip on awarding
08:46Starlink a pile of cash to help connect rural Americans.
08:50You can't make this stuff up.
08:51So let's again just take a moment here.
08:53Orange man bad plus Elon bad teaming up to gut the government of inefficiencies and waste.
08:58A history of Biden administration government agencies going after Elon, attacking him and
09:03his companies.
09:04The hate stream media have it in for Musk because of X.
09:06Both Musk and Orange man bad have massive balls and don't give a shit.
09:09So instead of cowering in the corner like little pussies and just caving into pressure,
09:13they will continue to fight for what they believe in.
09:15And you have Musk's not so jestful comments about, are you trying to get me assassinated?
09:20I mean, with Trump, what would be a good target just in terms of like ballpark?
09:26Are you trying to get me assassinated before this even happens?
09:29No, no.
09:30I want to finish by playing this fairly long clip of Elon Musk at the all in summit discussing
09:36some of the unreasonable treatment he and his companies have received from the US government
09:40and his potential role in a government efficiency commission under a Trump administration.
09:45Keeping in mind what has just happened today, this is what happens when somebody tries to
09:49do the right thing and has the courage to stand up against bullies, whether they're
09:54individuals, media machines, or wasteful governments.
09:57My message folks is that the attacks on Musk from every direction will only intensify leading
10:03into the 2024 US presidential election.
10:07And then assuming no late mail comes in, well, pipes have burst and counting has stopped.
10:12During a Trump administration, Department of Government Efficiency, as X continues
10:16to siphon away viewers from the hate stream media, bro, let us hope that Musk has really
10:22beefed up his personal security detail.
10:24I wish I did not need to be saying this.
10:27He did a great job.
10:29And you know, one of the things is there's this image on X of like, basically like you,
10:34Bobby, Trump, and JD are like the Avengers, I guess.
10:39And then there's another meme where you're in front of a desk where it says D-O-G-E,
10:44the Department of Governmental Efficiency.
10:46Yes.
10:47Yes.
10:48I posted that one.
10:49Tell us about it.
10:50I made it using Grok, the Grok image generator.
10:54And I posted it.
10:55Tell us about it.
10:56And put it to my profile.
10:57Seek for efficiency.
10:58How do you even do it?
11:01Well, I mean, I think with great difficulty, but you know, look, it's been a long time
11:09since there was a serious effort to reduce the size of government and to remove absurd
11:15regulations.
11:16Yeah.
11:17And, you know, the last time there was a really concerted effort on that front was Reagan
11:21in the early 80s.
11:22So we're 40 years away from a serious effort to remove, you know, regulations that don't
11:30serve the greater good and reduce the size of government.
11:34And I think it's just, if we don't do that, then what's happening is that we get regulations
11:39and laws accumulating every year until eventually everything's illegal.
11:44And that's why we can't get major infrastructure projects done in the United States.
11:48Like if you look at the absurdity of the California high-speed rail, I think they spent $7 billion
11:53and have a 1,600-foot segment that doesn't actually have rail in it.
11:57I mean, your tax dollars at work?
11:59I mean.
12:00Yeah.
12:01What are we doing?
12:02I mean, it's like high-speed concrete, you know?
12:05And I mean, I think it's like, you know, I realize sometimes I'm perhaps a little optimistic
12:11with schedules, but, you know, I mean, I wouldn't be doing the things I'm doing if I was, you
12:20know, not an optimist.
12:23So but at the current trend, you know, California high-speed rail might finish sometime next
12:30century.
12:31Maybe.
12:32But probably not.
12:33We'll have teleportation by that time.
12:35Yeah, exactly.
12:36AI would do everything at that point.
12:39So I think you really think of, you know, the United States and many countries, it's
12:47arguably worse than the EU, as being like Gulliver tied down by a million little strings.
12:52And like any one given regulation is not that bad, but you've got a million of them.
12:58Or millions, actually.
13:00And then eventually just can't get anything done.
13:03And this is a massive tax on the consumer, on the people.
13:08It's just they don't realize that there's this massive tax in the form of irrational
13:13regulations.
13:14I'll give you a recent example that, you know, is just insane, is that like SpaceX was fined
13:22by the EPA $140,000 for, they claimed, dumping potable water on the ground, drinking water.
13:31And we're like, this is at Starbase.
13:33And we're like, we're in a tropical thunderstorm region.
13:37That stuff comes from the sky all the time.
13:42And there was no actual harm done.
13:43You know, it was just water to cool the launch pad during liftoff, and there's zero harm
13:49done.
13:50And they're like, they agree, yes, there's zero harm done.
13:51And we're like, okay, so there's no harm done.
13:53And you want us to pay a $140,000 fine?
13:56It's like, yes, because you didn't have a permit.
13:58Okay.
14:00We didn't know there was a permit needed for zero harm, fresh water, being on the ground
14:04in a place where fresh water falls from the sky all the time.
14:09Next to the ocean.
14:10Next to the ocean.
14:11Because there's a little bit of water there too.
14:13Yeah.
14:14I mean, sometimes it rains so much the roads are flooded.
14:16So we're like, you know, how does this make any sense?
14:21And then they were like, well, we're not going to process any more of your applications for
14:26launch, for Starship launch, unless you pay this $140,000.
14:29They just ransomed us and we're like, okay, so we paid $140,000, but it was, it's like,
14:34this is no good.
14:35I mean, at this rate, we're never going to get to Mars.
14:37I mean, that's the, that's the confounding part here is we're acting against our own
14:44self-interest.
14:45You know, when you look at, we do have to make, putting aside fresh water, but hey,
14:51you know, there, the rocket makes a lot of noise.
14:54So I'm, I'm certain there's some complaints about noise once in a while, but sometimes
14:57you want to have a party where you want to make progress and there's a little bit of
15:00noise.
15:01Therefore, you know, we, we trade off a little bit of noise for massive progress or even
15:05fun.
15:06So when did we stop being able to make those trade-offs, but talk about the difference
15:11between California and Texas, where you and I now reside, Texas, you were able to build
15:18the Gigafactory.
15:19I remember when you got the plot of land and there, it seemed like it was less than two
15:24years when you had the party to open it.
15:27Yeah.
15:28From start of construction to completion was 14 months, 14, 14 months.
15:35Is there anywhere on the planet that would go faster?
15:36Is like China faster than that?
15:39China was 11 months.
15:40Got it.
15:41So Texas, China, 11 and 14 months, California, how many months?
15:46And just to give you a sense of size, the Tesla Gigafactory in China is three times
15:51the size of the Pentagon.
15:52Which was the biggest building in America?
15:54No, there are bigger buildings, but the Pentagon is a pretty big one.
15:56Yeah.
15:57Or it was the biggest.
15:58In units, in units of Pentagon, it's like three.
16:00Okay.
16:01Three Pentagons and counting.
16:02Yeah.
16:03Got it.
16:04In 14 months, the, just the, just the regulatory approvals in California would have taken two
16:11years.
16:12Yeah.
16:13So that's, that's the issue.
16:14Where, where, where do you think the regulation helps?
16:17Like for the people that will say, we need some checks and balances.
16:20We can't have some, because for every good actor like you, there'll be a bad actor.
16:23So where is that line?
16:24Yeah.
16:25I mean, I haven't, I sort of, you know, in, in, in sort of doing sensible deregulation
16:32and reduction in the size of government is, is just like be very public about it and say,
16:37like, which of these rules do you, if the public is really excited about a rule and
16:41wants to keep it, we'll just keep it.
16:44And here's the thing about the rules.
16:45If like, if the rule is, you know, it turns out to be a bad, we'll just put it right back.
16:50Okay.
16:51And then, you know, problem solved.
16:53It's like, it's easy to add rules, but we don't actually have a process for getting
16:56rid of them.
16:57That's the issue.
16:58There's no garbage collection pool.
16:59When we were watching you work, David and I and Antonio in that first month at Twitter,
17:09which was all hands on deck and you were doing zero-based budgeting, you really quickly got
17:14the costs under control.
17:15And then miraculously, everybody said this site will go down and you added 50 more features.
17:21So maybe explain, because this is the first time.
17:24Yeah, there were like so many articles like the, that this is, Twitter is dead forever.
17:29There's no way it could possibly even continue at all.
17:32It was almost like the press was rooting for you to fail.
17:35Let's write the obituary.
17:36Like here's the obituary.
17:37They were all saying their goodbyes on Twitter.
17:39Remember that?
17:40Yeah.
17:41Yeah.
17:42They were all leaving and saying their goodbyes because the site was going to melt down.
17:43Yes.
17:44Totally failing.
17:45And all the journalists left, which is, if you ever want to like hang out with a bunch
17:50of hall monitors.
17:51Oh my God.
17:52Threads is amazing.
17:53Every time I go over there and post, they're like big, they're really triggered.
17:57But yeah.
17:58I mean, if you like being condemned repeatedly, then, you know, for reasons that make no sense,
18:03then Threads is the way to go.
18:04It's really, it's, it's the most miserable place on earth.
18:08If Disney's the happiest, this is the anti-Disney.
18:11But if we were to go into government, you went into the department of education or pick
18:16the department.
18:17You've worked with a lot of them, actually.
18:19You can't go in there and zero-based budget.
18:20Okay.
18:21We get it.
18:22But if you could just pair two, three, four, 5% of those organizations, what kind of impact
18:28would that have?
18:29Yeah.
18:30I mean, I think we'd need to do more than that.
18:31I think.
18:32Ideally.
18:33Yeah.
18:34Compounding every year.
18:35Two, 3% a year.
18:36I mean, it would be better than what's happening now.
18:38Yeah.
18:39Look, I think we've, you know, if Trump wins and I'll say this, I suspect there are people
18:48with mixed feelings about whether that should happen, but we do have an opportunity to do
18:55kind of a once-in-a-lifetime deregulation and reduction in the size of government.
19:00Because the other thing, besides the regulations, America is also going bankrupt extremely quickly.
19:05And nobody seems to, everyone seems to be sort of whistling past the graveyard on this
19:10one.
19:11They're all grabbing the silverware.
19:14Everyone's stuffing their pockets in the silverware before the Titanic sinks.
19:18Well, you know, the Defense Department budget is a very big budget.
19:22Okay.
19:23It's a trillion dollars a year, DOD, Intel, it's a trillion dollars.
19:28And interest payments on the national debt just exceeded the Defense Department budget.
19:34They're over a trillion dollars a year, just in interest and rising.
19:39We're adding a trillion dollars to our debt, which our kids and grandkids are going to
19:46have to pay somehow, you know, every three months.
19:50And then soon it's going to be every two months, and then every month.
19:54And then the only thing we'll be able to pay is interest.
19:56And it's just, you know, it's just like a person at scale that has racked up too much
20:03credit card debt.
20:05And this does not have a good ending.
20:12And so we have to reduce the spending.
20:14Let me ask one question, because I've brought this up a lot in the counterargument I hear,
20:18which I disagree with.
20:19But the counterargument I hear from a lot of politicians is if we reduce spending, because
20:24right now, if you add up federal, state and local government spending, it's between 40
20:28and 50% of GDP.
20:31So nearly half of our economy is supported by government spending.
20:35And nearly half of people in the United States are dependent directly or indirectly on government
20:39checks.
20:40And either through contractors that the government pays, or they're employed by a government
20:44entity.
20:45So if you go in and you take two hardened acts too fast, you will have significant contraction,
20:51job loss and recession.
20:53What's the balancing act, Elon?
20:55Just thinking realistically, because I'm 100% on board with you, the next set of steps,
21:01however, assume Trump wins and you become the chief D-O-G-E, D-O-G-E, D-O, like double
21:10G. And I think the challenge is how quickly can we go in?
21:17How quickly can things change?
21:19And without...
21:20I'll let that on my business card.
21:27Without all the contraction and job loss.
21:29You're a mascot.
21:31So I guess, how do you really address it when so much of the economy and so many people's
21:33jobs and livelihoods are dependent on government spending?
21:36Well, I mean, I do think it's sort of, you know, it's a false dichotomy.
21:41It's not like no government spending is going to happen.
21:45You really have to say like, is it the right level?
21:48And just remember that, you know, any given person, if they are doing things in a less
21:54efficient organization versus a more efficient organization, their contribution to the economy,
21:59their net output of goods and services will reduce.
22:02I mean, you've got a couple of clear examples between East Germany and West Germany, North
22:07Korea and South Korea.
22:08I mean, North Korea, they're starving.
22:10South Korea, it's like amazing.
22:12It's the future.
22:13It's the compounding effect of productivity gains.
22:15Yeah.
22:16Yeah, it's night and day.
22:18And so in North Korea, you've got 100% government.
22:21In South Korea, you've got probably, I don't know, 40% government.
22:24It's not zero.
22:25And yet you've got a standard of living that is probably 10 times higher in South Korea.
22:29At least.
22:30At least, exactly.
22:32And then East and West Germany, in West Germany, just thinking in terms of cars, I mean, you
22:38had BMW, Porsche, Audi, Mercedes.
22:42And East Germany, which is a random line on a map, the only car you could get was a Trabant,
22:49which is basically a lawnmower with a shell in it.
22:53And it was extremely unsafe.
22:55There was a 20-year wait, so you put your kid on the list as soon as they're conceived.
23:04And even then, only, I think, a quarter of people maybe got this lousy car.
23:12And so that's just an interesting example of basically the same people, different operating
23:16system.
23:18And it's not like West Germany was some capitalist heaven.
23:25It was quite socialist, actually.
23:29So probably it was half government in West Germany and 100% government in East Germany.
23:36And again, sort of a 5 to 10x standard of living difference, and even qualitatively
23:43vastly better.
23:45And it's obviously, you know, so many people have these, amazingly in this modern era,
23:49this debate as to which system is better.
23:51Well, I'll tell you which system is better.
23:53The one that doesn't need to build the wall to keep people in, okay?
23:57That's how you can tell.
23:58Okay?
23:59Yeah.
24:00It's a dead giveaway.
24:01Spoiler alert.
24:02Dead giveaway.
24:03Are they climbing the wall to get out or come in?
24:04Dead giveaway is you have to build a barrier to keep people in.
24:11That is the bad system.
24:14It wasn't West Berlin that built the wall, okay?
24:17They were like, you know, anyone who wants to flee West Berlin, go ahead.
24:21Speaking of walls.
24:22So, you know, and if you look at sort of the flux of boats from Cuba, there's a large number
24:28of boats from Cuba, and there's a bunch of free boats that anyone can take to go back
24:35to Cuba.
24:36Plenty of seats.
24:37There's like, hey, wow, an abandoned boat.
24:39I could use this boat to go to Cuba where they have communism.
24:42Awesome.
24:44And yet nobody picks up those boats and does it.
24:48Amazing.
24:49You've given this a lot of thought.
24:51Yeah.
24:52Wait, so your point is jobs will be created.
24:54If we cut government spending in half, jobs will be created fast enough to make up for,
24:58right?
24:59Just to count.
25:00Yes.
25:01Obviously, you know, I'm not suggesting that people, you know, had like immediately tossed
25:06out with no severance and, you know, now can't pay their mortgage.
25:10Then you see some reasonable off-ramp where, yeah, so a reasonable off-ramp where, you
25:15know, they're still, you know, earning, they're still receiving money, but have like, I don't
25:20know, a year or two to find jobs in the private sector, which they will find.
25:24And then they will be in a different operating system.
25:26Again, you can see the difference.
25:29East Germany was incorporated into West Germany.
25:31Living standards in East Germany rose dramatically.
25:34Well, in four years, if you could shrink the size of the government with Trump, what would
25:40be a good target?
25:41Just in terms of like ballpark.
25:42I mean, are you trying to get me assassinated before this even happens?
25:46No, no.
25:47Pick a low number.
25:48I mean, you know, there's that old phrase, go postal.
25:50I mean, it's like they might.
25:51Yeah.
25:52I mean.
25:53So we'll keep the post office.
25:54I mean, I'm going to need a lot of security details, guys.
25:57Yes.
25:58I mean, the number of disgruntled workers, former government employees is quite a scary
26:06number.
26:07I mean, I might not make it, you know.
26:08I'm just saying a low cut, low digits every year for four years.
26:11To be clear, he's not joking.
26:14Stay safe, Elon.
26:15We need you, bro.
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