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Political Commentator 1
I don't think there's a precedent for the level of stupidity in which Elon Musk has engaged. He literally has taken a grenade and thrown it in every aspect of his life. Axios dove in a little deeper. Let's put up this headline. Elon Musk arrived in Washington as the most powerful political outsider ever. He's leaving with his reputation wounded, relationships severed, companies in crisis, fortune diminished, and little to show for Doge but chaos and contested savings. This has been an unforced face plant of epic proportions. And this is something very interesting that historians of authoritarianism has have pointed to. Usually you have the oligarchs over here and the autocrat here. This is the first time that we've seen an ocean oligarch become an insider in the government and it has failed spectacularly. And the suffering that this man has caused in the moral decay of America, being a leader in human rights, civil rights, this man is completely diminished. I want to remind everybody that most people believe his close friends that this man is a full blown ketamine addict and for sure a Twitter addict and a total liar. Claims to be a free speech absolutist, which is just gaslighting writing. He is in fact the opposite.
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Political Commentator 2
Well the veneer off of his complete and total lie of like you said, free speech absolutist. As long as it's for his speech and doing Nazi salutes. Turns out it's not real popular here and abroad. And I look at Elon Musk and I think this is what happens when you buy a presidency and you are corrupt and you want to go and use the government to make your billions of dollars and then go in and trash it and lie about it. It's just blatant. Cor.
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Political Commentator 1
Interestingly, like during Trump 1.0 he would tweet about Elon Musk and talk about how he was a billionaire only by government subsidies and the Elon Musk would get on his knees and beg Trump for XYZ and he would totally talk about how he is only a billionaire because of subsidies. My, my, how quickly they forget. Next up, this is I think going to be One of the biggest autopsies of Doge. Put this headline up Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency or do Doge says it has saved 160 billion through its push to root out wasteful or fraudulent fraudulent government spending. But that effort may also have come at a cost for taxpayers, with new analysis from nonpartisan research and advocacy group estimating that Doge's actions will cost 135 billion this fiscal year. I'm going to go on the record to say at the end of this, when this is autopsied, Doge costs us more money just on the money aspect of it. And then the cascading damage, amateurized over a timeline, five years, 10 years. It's what we're going to have to spend to fix the things that he has broken is going to be insurmountable.
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Political Commentator 2
I completely agree. And I also think it's worth noting that Elon Musk wanted the power and the recognition for Doge, but in reality, what he got in spades was he continues to award himself government contracts and he stopped investing investigations into himself and his company. So regardless of how much it costs people, he wins because he's not in prison.
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Political Commentator 1
And I read an article, I can't remember if it was Vanity Fair or the Atlantic or somewhere, but basically there's a biographer of Elon Musk, and Elon Musk believes that he is a reincarnated king from another life. What? Yeah, yeah, you can Google it. I read that article this weekend. I mean, this guy is delusions of grandeur. Another article came out that they estimate that it's not just 14 kids, that he has over 100 kids, and that his goal is to have 5,000 kids. So on top of all of just the breathtaking, obvious incompetence that he's done with Doge and acting like he's an expert in areas wherein he is not. He is a freaking weirdo. Like an absolute morally defunct weirdo. Moving along, we have Scott Besant. And this just shows you how incompetent not only Trump is. And remember, it's trickle down incompetence. So all the bottom feeders that agreed to work with a convicted felon are arriving at Trump 2.0 with the ability to do a lot of mental, moral and fiscal gymnastics. And Scott Bessant is one of these guys here he is bullshitting on believe it's ABC News. Over the weekend, Trump's strategy really has been to announce these tariffs and dial some back, pause them, make exceptions, explain why you see this as a Good negotiating. Well, in game theory is called strategic uncertainty. Okay, stop right there. Strategic uncertainty. This is the word salad that Fox claimed that Kamala Harris used. Everything they do is total projection. Strategic uncertainty is a jet stream of bullshit that sold to the, you know, single double digit IQ viewers of Fox News that are like, oh yeah, it's 4D chess. This is embarrassing. This guy has made billions of dollars working for hedge funds in the United States of America and doesn't have the decency to fight for everybody. And that's another autopsy. And a lot of these S&P 500s, come on, stand up CEOs. Stand up and fight for your customers.
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Political Commentator 2
What, what's so alarming about this is Scott Bessant knows that the market and business growth comes from security and stability and he's sitting there acting like this is a good thing. What a total liar.
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Political Commentator 1
Okay, next up we have Citadel's, I believe his name is Kyle Griffin, and put up this excerpt. This is the part that I thought was really interesting. He says. Speaking as part of Stanford's View from the Top series in Silicon Valley, Griffin argued that the US should try to play to its strengths such as creating intellectual property and content, rather than bringing back jobs in factories that have largely automated their production anyway. He says these are jobs that pay a stunning amount of money as compared to working in a factory making zippers or making home appliances or making flat screen TVs. Griffin said he had spoken a few weeks ago with a senior Chinese government official who questioned why US Trade policy would be to foster low paying factory jobs and become more like China instead of being the world power that China is trying to emulate. This right here was one of the most important excerpts I think I read all weekend. The United States government is actively trying to reorganize the economy in the way where J.D. vance said these Chinese peasants, he wants American workers to be there, that the Chinese are completely shocked by this. They have a population more than double the size of America's and our economy remained so much larger, bigger, more productive than theirs, and they're sitting there scratching their head saying, wait a minute, you want our economy? Your economy is the enemy, the envy of the world. I feel like I've had the longest work weeks, busy weekends, and it leaves me feeling so depleted. And that's why I'm so happy to share with you all that I've discovered Prolon's five day fasting mimicking diet, and it works at the cellular level to rejuvenate you from the inside out, providing real results and now they're upping their game with the new next gen five day program delivering the same science backed benefits in a cleaner, more convenient and more flavor format.
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Political Commentator 1
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Political Commentator 2
Well, the thing about it is, is I truly believe that Donald, I think you're 100% right with the authoritarianism. He wants to be an authoritarian. So he is doing everything in an authoritarian playbook. And these people continue to vote against their own interests.
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Political Commentator 1
And this is my number one thing right now. You have an S&P 500s. You have zero CEOs speaking out and pushing back against Donald Trump. Zero out of the S&P 500 companies, zero leadership in any CEO standing up to this fascist, authoritarian, illegal, anti, you know, human rights administration. And it is abhorrent. You have Harvard standing up and we're going to start to see others. But I think we need to start putting pressure on everybody. The people is not going to be enough. Corporations are not going to be enough to stand up against this, to save our country. Everybody has to come together. And there's a couple of Wall street executives that are starting to crack, put this up more. Executives, from Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, warned Wall street and the Trump administration of the damage to the economy that tariffs will cause. Branson said Trump could do lasting harm with his unpredictable trade policies that took a booming economy and shook it to its core. It's just such a pity because everything was going so bloody well up to about three months ago, Branson said. And I think more and more s s and P500 CEOs have got to speak up because what is happening is they're playing this short term game where they think they can consolidate a lot of wealth and make a lot of money under Trump. Well, as we found out, everybody's going to lose a lot of money. And in a recession, these S&P 500 companies don't do well. And Americans have to lean on these corporations to help save democracy. We can clean up that part of it later, but I don't think we save this democracy without the private sector stepping in and standing up to this Trump regime in the same way that Harvard is doing well.
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Political Commentator 2
We saw that last week. Walmart, Home Depot, Target CEOs went to Trump and said, we're going to have serious issues. I read this weekend by May, they think shelves will be empty. The Port of Seattle importing goods, empty. So we're going to start feeling it. And you've always said these CEOs are shortsighted. And I believe that because we're looking at. I mean, if nobody's making any money and there's nothing to buy, they lose just as much as the American public.
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Political Commentator 1
And I call on all three of those CEOs, instead of sitting down with him and still trying to play patty cake with him. Get other CEOs, get a whole legion of CEOs, and then go to the steps of Congress and apply pressure. Because this, we are at a precipice. We are living in a historical moment and we are crashing the world's strongest economy in the whole American experiment. For a broken, insecure, malignant narcissist, it's utterly chaotic and insane. All right, please subscribe. We're getting super close to 1 million. I think we're over 800,000 now. So subscribe. Like Engage. Engage with all liberal content. It's a way that we can boost our messaging and other. Our other peers in this platform arena, like Midas Touch, Brian, Tyler Cohen, Don Lemon, the Bulwark. Make sure you like. And we build a big echo chamber to counteract this right wing non sense. All right, we'll see you all later.