Dan Bongino (21:25)
They will only pull from the right. So in pragmatic terms, it can only serve to lose Republicans elections, both the bad Republicans and the good Republicans. I know what you're gonna say. There are no good politicians. Also, let's also keep this dynamic in mind. People say, well, who are you gonna trust? Someone who's not in D.C. or lifelong politicians. Yeah, but that doesn't apply to Donald Trump, though. Yeah, it doesn't. It really doesn't. He was before Elon Musk. He was the guy who was not a politician. And that's why people wanted to give it a shot. Say, hey, let's give this. Let's give this businessman a try. And by the way, has built companies in a very different way from Elon Musk. But we'll get to that. So now Donald Trump. Trump has said that he's pretty much done with Elon Musk writing, Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history. By far. Is it may or by far. He may get more than anyone. He may by far absolutely does. And without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more rocket launches, satellites or electric car production in our country. Would save a fortune. Perhaps we should have Doge take a good hard look at this. Big money to be saved. And then Elon Musk responded. And this is what he's saying now. He's saying, I'm literally saying cut it all now. But here's the thing. He's saying, cut it all now. Sure. Here's my problem with Elon Musk. He says it after he's gotten his bag. He says it after he's. When people talk. When Bernie Sanders says tech oligarchs or he's talk. He's not all wrong now. He ignores the meta, Facebook X before Elon Musk, Google, Alphabet. He ignores all Apple, Microsoft, Amazon. He ignores all of it. And lasers in on one tech example. But I will say this. When I'm thinking of an oligarch, I'm thinking of someone who pretty much has to work hand in hand with government so their business receives favoritism. Unlike the mom and pop shops, I can't think of anyone who qualifies more than Elon Musk. So, okay, this year Tesla spent a few hundred thousand dollars, couple hundred thousand dollars lobbying for EV policies. But just last month, Tesla Energy posted on X abruptly ending the energy tax credits would threaten America's energy independence and reliability of our grid. And then Elon Musk amplified a post calling the ending of solar subsidies to be unjust. So only a month ago, just to be clear, guys, you may, and no matter where you line up, truth does matter. Check the references. Elon Musk a month ago, wants your tax dollars to fund and subsidize a non functional technology. As far as what we would need solar to do you want to put solar panels on your house? Absolutely. Individually, to run a city. Can't be done. Right now if you look at the businesses that Elon Musk has gone in, you look at electric cars, subsidies, you look at AI, you look at things like Neuralink, you look at what he's doing in exploring space, you look at solar energy, all of them require, if not subsidies, at least tax breaks and big government contracts. He hasn't started a restaurant franchise, he didn't start selling a toy he's never really even ventured into with any type of great commitment, a business venture that wouldn't require working hand in hand with government. My issue is that I just don't think it's honest because a month ago he was telling you can't be mad about Solyndra and say, yeah, yeah, I want to follow Elon Musk's party because he's pro liberty. Keep in mind his companies have received $38 billion in subsidies and contracts over the last two decades. A third of Tesla's profits are basically from selling regulatory credits. And here's the thing too, what you have to understand is, hey, you know how you guys hate a lot of green, require these sort of EPA regulations in your car, like that auto shut off button that just bothers everybody. Yeah, it's terrible for your car. Big reason that the V8s went away and some of the new emission standards. Right. You know that a big part of that is Elon Musk. A big part of that is, is people pushing for green electric cars. And so they were all too happy to try and drive gasoline cars and manufacturers out of business by making it so cost intensive that everyone goes, all right, I guess we'll go to electric. I get that. Elon Musk has said now I've supported ending all EV credits because it would be advantageous for Tesla. Sure, But Tesla wouldn't have ever become Tesla if not for that let's be really clear. And if you want to look at his history of political support, okay, you want to join the. You're maga. I'm conservative. Let's say you're conservative. You're a maga. You want to join the third party and support the man, Elon Musk, the party created by the man who supported in 2004. I believe that he pushed for John Kerry in 2007, supported the Republican Congressional Committee, but also Obama, Hillary in 2011, the DNC, Obama, 2015, Hillary. You look at 2020, Biden, 2022. You guys may have forgotten this. And I like DeSantis. He bought X. And the very first thing he did was try and push DeSantis. So when people say he's the one who made President Trump to be the president, like it was a coronation from Elon Musk. He tried it with DeSantis. It didn't work. This is a guy who has a long standing history of supporting Democrats, of supporting leftist policies, of supporting subsidies, and maybe now he's turned over a new leaf and he believes in free market enterprise, but he wasn't a month ago. You want to join that third party. Do you think that's what's best for America in 2020? I don't think that Elon Musk cares if it's best for America. I genuinely don't. I really don't think that he's looking at this saying, this is what's best for America. Because even if you think this bill sucks, you still would be able to come to the conclusion it's not best for America to get rid of all Republicans. The only sort of stopgap that we have and. Josh, are you. You okay? You okay over there, Josh?
