Elon Musk: "In fact, there was a report issued by the GAO, the Government Accountability Office, last year. So during the Biden administration, which estimated the federal government fraud to be half a trillion dollars. So just to be clear, that’s not a Trump administration thing, that’s a Biden administration thing.
Elon Musk: What we’re trying to do is get that number down to a much smaller figure, save money for the American taxpayer, stop money being spent on things that are, that I think very few taxpayers would agree makes sense. You know, transgender animal surgeries, or why are we spending, why are American tax dollars being spent on this? And the President’s gone through a long list of absurd things. Why are the 20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive in the social security database? Why we're hundreds of millions of dollars of small business administration loans given out to people aged 11 and under, according to the social security? Like these must be some very enterprising eight-year-olds, you know? And some pretty strong 150-year-olds.
[ELON MUSK:] Right, well, we just basically follow the money. You know, we look at the President’s executive orders, and we also just follow the money.
So we started looking closely at USAID because they were completely violating the President’s executive orders to suspend foreign aid, you know, what’s called foreign aid, but in our view is a lot of corruption. So what we saw there is just a tremendous amount of money being sent to non-governmental organizations. But actually, this, by the way, is I think one of the biggest sources of fraud in the world, is government-funded non-governmental organizations.
[ELON MUSK:] In fact, they try their best to thwart presidential policy. So the president is the elected representative of the people. And if the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy. We have a bureaucracy. We have rule of the bureau, not rule of the people. And that’s what we’re trying to defeat here is the bureaucracy and have rule of the people...
From The Singju Post
I guess I have a few reactions here.
Meidas Touch host Anthony Davis talks way too much. We would've gotten a lot more here out of Elon Musk, if they just played the damn interview and then Davis could talk about what he thinks about it. What we got instead was maybe 10-15 seconds of Musk and then maybe a minute of Davis commentary right after that, before he would set up the next point.
And then my 2nd point is: wouldn't you love to be a body language expert and examine Elon Musk every time he speaks about anything... at least when he's doing his interviews? There seems to be no preparation on his part. Musk seems to be thinking about what he should say, as he's trying to say it, and perhaps gets caught in-between points as well.
Larry Kudlow is not what you would call a hard-nose journalist. Actually, he's not a journalist. He's a right-wing economic affairs commentator, with his own political talk show. He's just throwing batting practice softball after batting practice softball at Elon Musk. Questions like:
"What is it like running the greatest business in the world and trying to reform the U.S. Government at the same time?" And Musk says something like: "It's tough sledding". A high school student could hit that pitch a lot farther. But Musk barely makes contact on it and just wants to move on.
If there was 1 key point from this so-called interview between Larry Kudlow and Elon Musk, it would be this:
Elon Musk: "In fact, they try their best to thwart presidential policy. So the president is the elected representative of the people. And if the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy. We have a bureaucracy. We have rule of the bureau, not rule of the people. And that’s what we’re trying to defeat here is the bureaucracy and have rule of the people...
And this is what I really want you to concentrate on:
Elon Musk: "And if the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy. We have a bureaucracy".
There a few key responses to this:
I'm now in may late 40s. I'm from the same generation as Elon Musk (a nightmare that I have to live with everyday) but 5-6 years younger than him:
I'm in my late teens in the mid-1990s during the New Gingrich Revolution in Washington, when Republicans use to claim that America was a republic, not a democracy.
The same thing with George W. Bush in the 2000s and the Tea Party/MAGA in the 2010s.
Now that MAGA and their Oligarchs are in complete control of Washington in the mid 2020s, Elon and company are claiming that America should be some type of oligarchy, I mean democracy. (My bad) They believe the President of the United States should basically be able to do whatever the hell he wants to. Why? Because the American people elected Donald Trump. According to Elon Musk, President Trump is the representative of all the people. Including the 75 million people who voted for Kamala Harris.
Only in dictatorships can the chief executive of the executive branch do whatever he wants to. I guess just as long as the security state and military state, as well as his cabinet and party supports him. But as much as Elon Musk and Donald Trump hates this, we're not an oligarchic dictatorship, yet. We have checks and balances all over the Federal Government, as well as we should. Especially when someone comes into power believing that they shouldn't have any accountability and be able to do whatever they want, with no accountability.
My final point here: Elon Musk is exactly what he's been putting Federal employees down for being ever since Donald J. Trump became President in January: an unelected bureaucrat. And he's someone who had very little, if any understanding about how the U.S. Government and our Constitution before he came to Donald Trump's White House. And is now getting on the job training at its worst.
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