Joy Reid (83:49)
the government runs well. All government does is mess up your life. He said I can't think anything that the government runs well, all the government do is mess up your life. Except that Rick Scott who he says used to work in a grocery store. That's true. He was not born rich. But how Rick Scott became rich and he is filthy rich. So rich that he financed both of his runs for governor and his Senate campaign out of his own pocket. He actually didn't have to fundraise. That's how rich he is. In one of the most expensive states to run for office in in the country. As one of the least popular governors in the country, he ran successfully for Senate mainly through a self financed campaign. Do you know how Rick Scott became rich? The government. Rick Scott used to run a healthcare company whose main income came from Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare. So they would get giant reimbursements from the federal and state governments for patients. That is how Rick Scott got rich. And while being the CEO of a company whose literal basis in income was based on the government and in reaping money off of Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, which is the military version of Medicare, Rick Scott's company defrauded the government. They would submit false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare for patients they never saw. They would have phantom patients who were filing Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare health claims to the tune of about $1.7 billion. It was the largest fraud in the history of the health care system in the United States. Rick Scott was the CEO of the company, very well paid, seven figure salary. And he did. He was. He testified in the case and said under oath that he had no idea that the company he was literally the CEO of was defrauding the health care system, meaning the government. Rick Scott said he knew nothing about it. He had no idea that this record Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare product defrauding the veterans health care. That is why Rick Scott is rich. When Rick Scott then becomes governor of Florida, what did Rick Scott do? He ordered all federal workers to submit to drug testing. And you know who owned the company? The clinics where people would go and get drug tests? Rick Scott and his wife. So he owned health care companies where people could go in and get their drug tests. And he also ordered drug testing. And at least he attempted to. The workers of course sued and there was a big lawsuit and it never actually happened, but that was the plan. Rick Scott has mined the government at the state and federal level his entire adult life to become. I'm fairly sure he's at least close to a billionaire. If he's not a billionaire, he's pretty close to it. And we live in a country right now where the billionaires who run our country, who picked JD Vance, who are profiting from AI surveillance, who are profiting from the war in Iran, most of their wealth comes from the government. Peter thiel, who created J.D. vance, built him from scratch from a nobody at Yale who suddenly writes a book about his Appalachian roots when he's really not even poor, never was poor, was a middle class Ohioan who lived for a little while with his grandmother and then pretended that Meemaw was all that he had in the world. Writes this book while he's at Yale. Yale, the big CIA recruitment shop comes out, meets up with Peter Thiel, who is a Nepo baby South African who comes to this country, rockets to the top because he invests in a company called Palantir. What is Palantir's business? The federal government. Palantir was literally created with CIA investment money. See, the CIA had an investment firm that it created outside of its reaches because it's technically illegal for the CIA to operate in the United States. So Palantir absorbs the technology that PayPal initially created. And PayPal's initial investors include Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. The South Africans. Come over here. The South Africans. That's why they call them the PayPal mafia. They all invest in PayPal, they get lucky, it becomes popular. But the same technology that PayPal uses to track your purchases, they fold that into a bigger surveillance system that the CIA invests in to flip PayPal technology to use those same systems that are used to make sure your payments are not fraud. They flip that into a company called Palantir, which after the 911 attacks, suddenly becomes uber profitable with one client, the federal government. And Palantir, their entire business is government contracts. Government contracts to provide technology to ice. Government contracts to provide war technology to the Department of Defense. Government technology to create the kind of bombs that can wipe out Gaza. That's their business, the federal government. What about Elon Musk? They're like, well, his business is Twitter. No, it isn't. He bought Twitter because he had investments in PayPal, Palantir. He then has a rocket company that he recently told his shareholders is what he really wants to spend his time on. He would like to do minimal hours at his real company, Tesla, which is his main business, that he bought from two real creators. He just purchased it with his PayPal money and he said all he wants to do is build rocket ships. Well, why does he want to build rocket ships all day? Not because he cares about rockets, but because he gets federal contracts. The rocket company's main client is the Defense Department. Tesla's sales last year were fake, inflated because the Tesla truck was being purchased by governments and that fake inflated its increased sales. Once again, the federal government reaching in to save a billionaire's business that wouldn't have been otherwise profitable. Sam Altman, Mr. OpenAI. Mr. I'm going to make good technology what his OpenAI systems must. These similar products are being used for. They're being used by federal, by the federal government, they're being used by the CIA, they're being used by the FBI, they're being used by ice, they're being used by Border Patrol. Each and every one of these companies is doing what Howard Lucknick is accusing ordinary people of doing, sucking off the federal government. But because they suck off the federal government to get government contracts, that's good. That's a good way of being a good civic American. Growing your wealth through federal contracts is good when they do it, but when a small business in Texas just tries to get a little state contract, that's bad. And they're trying to suck off the federal government and you have to end that program because those black and brown and Asian American and LGBTQ and women owned businesses are just greedy and trying to suck off the federal government. And they're probably committing fraud. Give it to the white conservative Christian men. This is a sick system that is attempting to reward people who literally spend their entire lives eating off the government. And then not only do they eat off the government, they then pick the politicians who then give them the government contracts. Why do you think J.D. vance goes from a literal nobody to becoming Vice President of the United States? Peter Thiel. Without Peter Thiel, you never would have heard of J.D. vance. He would have been an anonymous guy married to a very prominent Indian family and no one would care about him. Now suddenly, he's in constant turning point usa. Though no one showed up to watch him talk, suddenly he's on track to be the next President of the United States. If he's President, what do you think he's going to do with the office he will run? The Pentagon, which has now been fake, renamed the Department of War for a very important reason. Defense. Somewhat profitable war. Really profitable. So all of a sudden, Peter Thiel gets to pick the next President, who gets to pick the next Defense Department head, who then gets to decide who gets the contracts. Who do you think is going to get the contracts? Peter Thiel. Who do you think is going to get all of the surveillance contracts? His buddies at Palantir. Who do you think is going to get the rocket contracts? Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. It's all a big hate to say this for the saints on Circle Jerk. These guys pick the politicians who then pick the contracts and hand it over to their friends. This small group of oligarchs is running the country, owning the politicians. And then they have organizations like AIPAC that make sure that the politicians stay on board with the most war like country on earth. A country that's literally been at war since it was founded and keeps on going into wars and claiming we got attacked. But then when you look into it, they keep invading their neighbors. And every time they invade their neighbors, they're in another war. But how convenient is that? That whenever they're in another war, they have to come back for more money and more munitions. And every time they come back for more money and more munitions, our defense contractors get paid. Every time they drop bombs on Gaza, they come back and buy more bombs, which makes our defense contractors get paid. This is literally. This is literally what Eisenhower was saying about the military industrial complex. We literally live in a country where all they're doing is siphoning money, siphoning money and handing it to each other and then picking politicians who will hand them more money. And then complaining that you ordinary American are greedy and you're not self sufficient and you just want to eat off the government teeth. You just want health care and you just want free health care and you want free preschool. You want all these things that don't even really cost that much money, but you're greedy for wanting them. But they want a lot more than that. They want billion and trillion dollar contracts, they want to become trillionaires. And they're going to do it not based on selling things to the consumer, but based on government contracts. So every time they complain that people are sucking the tea to the government, tell them to look in the mirror because they are the ones getting rich off the government. Literally. Literally. And then saying that you're the one who's doing it. Elon Musk did a tweet today, I think it was, where he said that the future is that there should be unlimited basic income, universal basic income, which a lot of people on the AI right are into, because that is the way that we will mitigate the elimination of American jobs. And that the way to deal with that is to make sure everybody just gets a check. And people started responding to him on X Twitter saying, yeah, but what are people supposed to do all day? Did you all see what Wally. Do you remember the show, the movie Wally and the movie Wally? You've had complete despoilment of the environment because these AI type billionaires, billionaires like the ones who are running our country, destroy the country. They've used up all the timber, they've destroyed all the national parks. They've turned the place into a despoiled, rotten, monstrous earth that is now dying. And so the humans now live in space on a space station where they don't work and the robots do all the work. This is the vision that Elon Musk proposed today, that we just give up having careers, we give up having any sort of a function as human beings. We just let the AI robots do all the work. And then I guess we become what the humans were in Wall E. Just a bunch of fluffed out, no muscle tone, can barely move, living in like a wheelie because they can't even walk. Because they don't walk. They don't do anything but sit around all day staring at entertainment. And I think they think that's enough for us because they do think we're cattle. The people who are running this country think of us as nothing more than chattel. But what they do want you to do with this universal basic income is continue to spend money to continue to give OpenAI and chat GPT your money. Because while you're sitting around with no career, no prospects, no purpose in life, you've lost your purpose. They want to replace that purpose with something else. And this is why you should understand why they keep talking religion. They are trying to take away our purpose as human beings, our ability to pay for our own rent, pay for our own mortgages, own a piece of property, have a vacation, afford some health care, afford to go to the dentist. They want to take all of that dignity away and replace it with a check where you sit around and do nothing but sit in front of a screen and spend. And as long as you sit around and reverse that money that they're going to give you from the federal government back to them and buy stuff and just mindlessly consume and then also mindlessly consume this fake religion they're giving you that tells you that greed is good, that the rich are good, that the poor are the ones who are evil, that the. The billionaires are your betters, that you should worship Donald Trump, that he is closest thing there is. Troynell said he's as close to the second coming as we're going to get. They're. They want you to believe that because then you won't mind that they're stealing everything that moves, taking everything that should be yours and turning you into nothing more than effectively a cow. How dare Howard Lutnick say anything about the American people when he's so far all up in the Epstein files? The FBI should be investigating him, but they won't, because why would they? He's one of them. He's in the Epstein class. I'm telling y', all, this is. I. I say this all the time. I say it all the time. It's not a bunch of stories. It's just one story. It's just one story. It's always one, and it's always the same story. The super rich have always wanted only one thing. To be kings. They've always envied the king. They envied the king of England. They envied the king of Spain. They envied the king of. Of Hops, Hopsburgs, and, you know, everywhere in Austria, they've always envied that position of being a royal entity with everyone beneath them. It's the reason, as Michael Harriot points out, that slave owners demanded that the enslaved call them master and mistress because they were trying to emulate the lords and ladies of the royal houses of Britain. They want to be kings, and they want everyone else to be serfs. They don't want anyone to have free will. They don't want anyone to have education. They don't want anyone to have knowledge. They just want you to serve them and be a servile, faithful, fake Christian who doesn't even know what's in the Bible, like Pete had said. So they can use and abuse you and then say you're the one who's lazy, you're the one who's sucking off the government teeth, you're the one who's bad, you're the one who's wrong, and they're the ones who are good. It's disgusting. And I hope that we know enough about this and get up on it enough by November to replace each and every person who's letting this happen to us. And I don't mean just letting it happen to people on our side, because they are letting it happen to the right too. They just haven't figured it out yet. At some point they're going to get it. Pete Hegseth came this close. They came this close. Ezekiel was trying to tell Israel at the time, which by the way is not the current state of Israel, it's a completely different historical entity, that he was trying to tell them that your faithlessness and allowing violence, and allowing poverty and allowing want and allowing people to go hungry in your midst is evil. And that your temple is going to be destroyed and that God will look the other way when it happens because you are abusing the vulnerable. That's why he saw the wheel. You're going to get it. Pete Hegseth. If you actually read the Bible and don't just watch Pulp Fiction. Although Pulp Fiction is an excellent movie and you should absolutely watch it. Okay. Sorry that I had to go on that rant. I had to get that out of my system. I had to get that out of my system. We do have a guest coming up. I want to show you guys. Sorry. Okay, I'm moving on. There is this new art installation that is opening right here in New York City. Let me let you check out this video. Taylor. Oh, D1. Sorry. D1. That's it. And I thought it was me as a doctor.
