WEBVTT - President Musk Takeover | SoloPod 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.640 Native Lamb Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:05.080 with Reason Choice Media. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.200 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.800 Hey, everybody. I am happy to be here with you 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:17.360 all today. This is my second solo pod with Native 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.040 Lampod and as we say normally, with my co hosts 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.120 who aren't with me of course, because it's a solo pod, 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.200 Tiffany Cross and Andrew Gillum shout out to tiff is 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.880 her birthday week. Welcome home, y'all. So today we are 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.560 getting back into it. Last week, as you all know, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.440 we covered the federal funding freeze, and this week I 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:40.960 want to talk about President Elon Musk. There are gonna 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:42.720 be a couple of these in this series. I think 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.800 next we're going to talk about Steven Miller, who is 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.839 the Deputy chief of Staff for Policy at the White House. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.879 But today I think it's really really important for us 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.080 to dive into the role that Elon Musk is playing 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.560 in the federal government, the fact that it is very 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:05.120 much outside, perhaps illegal, and he is waiting in the water, 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.160 maybe drowning in the water, with conflicts of interest. So 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.040 we're going to get into that, I think first and 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:17.800 foremost what I really want to talk about. Actually, before 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.320 I get into anything, let me offer this disclaimer, because 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.280 what we know about this White House and the Trump 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:26.679 administration is they are highly litigious. So to cover my 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.560 home behind iHeart and reason choice media, let me say this. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.000 I am acknowledging that they are very litigious. That what 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.440 I'm going to talk about today is going to infuriate 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.920 some associated with the federal government. Whether they are contractors, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:47.280 Elon Musk acolytes, Trump acolytes, fans, MAGA protesters, or anything else, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.560 the fact that remains that they are litigious. So I 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.920 want you to ensure I want to ensure that you 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.640 know the sources. I will cite the sources as much 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.120 as I can. I will do my best to say 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.840 what is alleged. I will let you know what is 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.960 a theory and what is my inner holy ghost, the 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.280 black woman's discernment, and let you know that it is just. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:07.920 That a theory. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.079 And then I will also be sure as always to 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.560 let you know what is a fact, because facts matter 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.520 in a day and age where they could not convince 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:18.640 us more that they do not. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:19.640 They matter. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.639 And I will also make sure that I am diligent 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.480 about this because. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.079 I think that these are Donald Trump's puppet masters. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.400 Starting of course, with Elon Musk, I said, I think 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.800 that means it's a theory. So one of the things 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.960 that we will also continue to go back to is 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:43.320 Project twenty twenty five. In Project twenty twenty five, efficiency 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:48.079 or inefficiency is mentioned at least sixty times in that document. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.359 So it's no wonder that the Trump administration is working 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.519 diligently to come up with something that makes government more efficient. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:01.880 In fact, they created an agency, because you know, Republicans 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.400 are apparently about big government these days, they added a 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.440 new agency. That agency is called the Department of Government Efficiency, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.360 because the best way to make government more efficient is 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.400 to add another agency. I'm just kidding if you can't tell. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.320 So the other thing that I think we should talk 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.320 about is who Donald Trump and Elon were, where their 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.560 relationship originated, and how we got to this very treacherous place. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:34.320 So on July thirteenth, twenty twenty four, Elon Musk went 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.600 to the platform that he purchased formally known as Twitter 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.440 to endorse Donald Trump. Since then, the evil brother to 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.800 True Social has seemingly suppressed the content of its most 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.480 progressive users, and has amplified content that is relate to, 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.320 related to and bolsters the once banned President Donald Trump. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.280 So let's talk briefly about who Elon Musk is. So 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:08.840 he is a South African born entrepreneur. He is believed 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.560 to be the richest man in the world, with a 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.360 reported net worth of more than four hundred and ten 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:19.000 billion dollars. One hundred and fifty billion of that four 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.760 hundred and ten billion has been garnered since the twenty 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.559 twenty four election. You heard me right, So he got 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.360 a whole additional one hundred and fifty billion dollars since 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:36.480 the election. I think that is worth noting. Next, this 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.640 former h one B visa holder. As I said, he 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.920 is the South African born richest man in the world. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.720 Elon Musk got rich from building companies like PayPal and 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.919 then going on to invest in companies like Tesla, which 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:55.800 most of us know him from. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:56.640 And SpaceX. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.720 This election cycle, he establish a pack called America Pack 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.560 for those of you who don't know, a pack stands 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:09.160 for political Action committee. So he founded America Political Action 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:14.760 Committee and according to FBC filing, spent seventy two million 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.120 dollars to support the election of Donald J. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.159 T Donald J. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.880 Trump so again July endorsement established his America Pack spends 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.280 seventy two million dollars of his own money to help 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.680 get Donald Trump elected. I would say a theory is 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.040 he did a little bit more than that. You all 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.359 know my theory if you watch the podcast. If you 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.080 don't know my theory, watch the podcast. It is a theory. 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.960 It is not confirmed, but I believe that the SpaceX 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.279 Satellite Division might have had something to do with this 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:43.320 electoral victory. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:44.760 So there's that now. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:52.120 I want to also say that that it is that. Well, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:53.520 I'm just going back to the facts. Let me go 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.160 back to the facts. Don't ever bouy my theories for now. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.680 So one of Trump's earliest advisors, Steve Bannon, who you 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.560 are may remember. His name may ring a bell because 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.200 he was held in contempt of Congress for not cooperating 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:12.080 with Congress. He said recently that Elon Musk's sole objective is. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:13.280 To become a trillionaire. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.320 There is apparently trouble in paradise because Steve Bannon and 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.000 Elon must don't rock with each other. Steve Bannon was 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.719 fired in the last Trump administration, but he is still 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.719 a diehard Maga. So the Magas are scrapping. So he 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.000 said that his only goal is to become a trillionaire. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.440 He says that white South Africans are the most racist 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.600 on the planet. It's funny to watch the pot calling 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.600 the kettle black, or maybe to watch the pot calling 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.680 the kettle white, or to say that the sheet and 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.160 the wall match. I don't know, but I just think 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.320 it's worth noting. So they're fighting, there's trouble in paradise. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.000 He said that he was going to see to it 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.800 by inauguration that Elon Musk did not have the unfettered 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.080 access that surprise he has. So Steve Bannon, you fail, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.600 Try again, for try again now. I want to just 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.159 get into the frail a little bit around what's happening 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.120 in South Africa. You would will have just noted that 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.200 most recently, Donald Trump said that he was going to 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.440 cut off all funding the South Africa. I keep emphasizing 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.600 the South African born Elon Musk for a reason. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.840 Elon Musk might have something to do with this policy. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:29.640 So South Africa just announced a land expropriation law, and 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.960 that law passed last month. It is designed to redress 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.480 the apartheid era confiscation of land owned by black people, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.960 and Donald Trump, in response to this law passing in 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:47.920 South Africa, made this statement on true social South Africa 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.080 is confiscating land and treating certain classes of people very badly. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:59.080 A massive, a massive human rights violation at a minimum 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.720 is happening for all to see. The United States won't 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:03.400 stand for it. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.080 We will act. Also note this part. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.240 Also, I will be cutting off all future spending, all 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.080 future funding. I'm sorry about that, all future funding to 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.280 South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.600 been completed. Now, what is fascinating about this is Donald Trump, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.200 Mister America first himself is real focused on where he's 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.679 going to, you know, lay down the law on a tariff. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.920 He drew that back, he pulled that back, and now 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.760 he's talking about funding the South Africa. And South Africa 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:41.240 only receives foreign aid from US to the tune of 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.920 four hundred million dollars annually and it's mostly for health programs, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.960 primarily focused around HIV AID support. So it's fascinating that 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:55.640 he's tied this land expropriation law that is designed to 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.440 give people back the land that they once had and 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.839 he's saying, we're not going to do this. Now what 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.800 you should also know and then I'm gonna get back 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.960 to America, roll with me to South Africa a little 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:10.760 bit longer. Elon Mus's hometown homeland home country. Land ownership 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.360 has been a very contentious issue in South Africa. This is, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.080 according to BBC, for more than a century. In nineteen thirteen, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:25.439 British colonies authorized British colonial authorities pass legislation that restricted 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.080 the property rights of the country's black majority. Again, the 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.880 law that was just passed is designed to give back 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.520 black folks the land that they once had. The Native's 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.800 Land Act left the vast majority of the land under 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.920 the control of the white minority and set the foundation 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.920 for the forced removal of black people to poor homelands, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.080 homelands and townships. And this is more than three decades ago, 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.880 until the end of apartheid. Now, the other thing that 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.240 I think is worth noting is that Elon mu Us 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.360 had something to say and it sounded very similar to 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.840 what Donald Trump said around returning the land. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.360 And it being a racist policy. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.480 So the Washington Post said that South Africa's government has 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.880 framed land reform as a moral social and economic imperative. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.960 I think many of us would agree with that given 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.880 our own experiences in this country because of the systemic 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.320 dispossession of black South Africans under apartheid. The country did 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.600 a land audit in twenty seventeen, and that land audit 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.480 says that the white population in South Africa owned seventy 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.839 two percent of individually owned farms and agricultural holdings. Mixed 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.160 race citizens also known as coloreds in South Africa owned 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:51.160 fifteen percent, Indians owned five percent, In Africans owned four percent. Now, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.679 what you need to know is, according to the twenty 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.360 twenty two census in South Africa, white folks made up 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:02.400 seven point three percent of the population, but again owned 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.640 seventy two percent of the farms and agricultural lands. So 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.920 when Elon Musk says, why do you guys have openly 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.040 racist ownership laws, he's not looking at the data and 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.600 he's not looking at the impact, not even the intention 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.839 of the law. We talked several times now about what 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.640 the intention of that law is. But Elon Musk is 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:29.040 focusing on the fact that white South Africans like him 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.080 are going to perhaps get land snatched, that they're not 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.760 even occupying. By the way, it is unoccupied land, unclaimed 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.599 land that they are returning back to black citizens. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.079 And that is what is bizarre to me. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.680 But what is very clear to me is you know, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.800 for Elon Musk, if it don't make dollars, it don't 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:50.440 make sense. He says, well, it's been noted that Musk's 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.720 Starlink satellite internet service was denied and this is a 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.840 company that is a subsidiary of SpaceX. It was denied 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.520 a license in South Africa because it doesn't meet affirmative 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:02.640 action criteria. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.200 All of this story to say to you. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:11.600 That if Elon Musk doesn't have a direct financial opportunity. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.520 Or a potential, he don't care. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.920 So the reason that Elon Musk is tweeting about South 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.720 Africa and its racist laws ownership laws is really because 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.920 this is a theory, by the way, is really because 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.720 Elon Musk is frustrated by the fact that his company, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.520 Starlink Satellite was denied a license in South Africa. So 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.440 now he's questioning everything they do to create equitable outcomes 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.880 for people who have suffered under an apartheid system and 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.920 still haven't seen equity, equality and justice. If we're honest. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:51.280 So he has Donald Trump in the fray around the 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:55.800 expropriation law, but really he wants to upset what's going 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.360 on in South Africa because he didn't get a contract 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:12.160 which brings us to the United States. So what we 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:17.800 also know is that Elon Musk has marched his white 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.200 man privilege into the White House, into the White House 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.360 complex at that with office space in his role as 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:29.000 the Department of Government Efficiency lead, and Donald Trump has 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.199 named him a special government employee. There is a big well, actually, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.480 there are several big issues with Elon Musk being named 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.520 a special government employee, especially because in some ways it 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.720 appears so again this is a theory, it appears that 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:48.000 Donald Trump and his administration don't understand that conflict of 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:53.080 interest and ethics still apply to special government employees. So 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.199 I want to get into that a little bit because 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.120 I think it's important to understand. One, Elon must South 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.040 African descent, since they can't stand immigrant so much. It 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.040 depends apparently white immigrants are in the clear, but he's 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.800 a South African immigrant who now has unfettered access to 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:13.120 the federal government. Anybody that has created an obstacle for 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.120 him economically he's going after we saw him do that 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.880 most recently with the South African president, and he's gotten 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.240 Donald Trump in the frey there. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.160 But furthermore, furthermore. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.960 We need to understand what he plans to do with 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:33.440 the Department of Government efficiency and how it will benefit 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:39.960 President Elon Musk. So I got a question, Lolo, you 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.560 just sent me from someone who said, who is leading 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.280 the investigation? What investigation are y'all talking about? I've been 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.200 talking for a long time. Just run that thing back 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:47.480 for me. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:48.320 Okay. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:53.800 So, now let's go into Elon musk potential bias as 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.400 a special government employee, the conflicts of interests that are there, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.720 as well as the government business he has, and why 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.800 this might create a much larger issue. So special government 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.440 employees are defined in eighteen USC. Section two oho two, 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.960 that is, Title eighteen of the United States Code, Section 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:13.760 two zero two. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.800 What can we do that does not include the Supreme Court? 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.880 Okay, these questions are I'm gonna keep I'm gonna get 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.200 through my monologue and then I'll go back to these questions. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.160 But a special government employee means that the person's work 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.119 does not normally exceed one hundred and thirty days annually. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.840 We know there's three hundred and sixty five days in 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.480 a year. One hundred and thirty days may not It 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.080 may be no problem. Elon muss and his friends may 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.800 be no problem. They sleeping in government buildings, we'll get 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:40.440 into that later. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.200 May not be a problem. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:47.760 But there are some other problems. So special government employees 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.760 do have rules that apply to them. Donald Trump seemed 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.400 to try to skirt by this issue in a press 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.720 conference yesterday when he said, you know, it doesn't matter. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.200 Elon Musk is a special government employee who also isn't 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.760 getting paid, So we'll call them a special government volunteer. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.880 Maybe they intend to introduce a new category of employee 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.560 where none of the conflict of interests and ethics rules 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.320 apply to them, or for now they do. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:09.920 So. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.640 While he doesn't have to comply with every ethics rule 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.800 and conflict of interest rule that it normally applies to 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:24.400 a full time government employee, appointed position, et cetera, special 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:32.320 government employees do have rules, and especially around financial disclosures, ethics, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.400 and misuse of position. So the in the misuse of 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.040 position part of the law, it says you cannot use 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:44.560 public office for their own private gain or private gains 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:49.280 of friends. Okay, So remember that eighteen USC. Two eight 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:55.320 A says it prohibits you from participating personally and substantially 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:01.680 in any particular matter that affects your finance interests as 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:06.120 well as the financial interests of your spouse, minor child, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:14.480 general partner, an organization in which you serve as an officer, director, trustee, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.000 general partner, or employee, or an organization with which you 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:23.000 are negotiating or with which you have an arrangement for 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.600 perspective employment. So we are going to shortly get into 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:33.120 the many places where Elon Musk's companies have government contracts 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.680 and why it is a problem that he accessed all 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.800 of the payment systems for the Department of Treasury, along 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:44.480 with several others. So I don't know if Donald Trump 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.959 and Elon Musk will get rid of FDIC. Congress can 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.040 introduce legislation to stop them. And I'm just stopping here 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.159 because there are more questions that are coming in and 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.199 I think that what is most important is for the 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.080 Democratic minority in the Senate and the House to find 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.200 who their potential are allies are on the other side 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:03.800 of the out and the Senate, in the House that 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:08.320 are in districts where their majorities are thin. Maybe they 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:13.320 were formerly blue districts. Maybe they are districts where they're Republicans, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.160 but they're not really Trumpers like that, and so they 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.240 don't want to give him unfettered access to destroying the government. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.320 Those are the folks who they should be looking to 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.280 ally up with, to align with, to determine what the 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.879 steps forward could be to introduce legislation to stop some 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.960 of what's happening. The majority is razor thin in the House, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.720 and it's razor thin in the Senate. They definitely don't 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.480 have anywhere near sixty votes. So there are a number 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.760 of things that can and should be done. I'm assuming 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.040 that on these retreats and conferences that are currently being 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.600 held that they're talking about these things. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:46.840 Now. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.280 I want to get into two. I was gonna say 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:56.040 Donald Trump, President Donald Musk elon Musk conflicts of interest. So, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.960 according to the New York Times, Tesla has three hundred 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.240 and fifty two thousand, which isn't a lot in federal contracts, 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:09.080 but there are federal contracts. No less, SpaceX has fifteen 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:13.720 point four billion dollars in contracts with nine different departments 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.000 and three different government agencies. 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.360 These are all at the federal level, and. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.240 Tesla and SpaceX, according to the New York Times, are 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:27.920 the subject of more than twenty investigations or reviews by 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.720 five different departments and six agencies in the federal government. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:33.360 So that is significant. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.840 Six figures in contracts for Tesla, billions of dollars in 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:42.000 contracts for SpaceX, the subject of more than twenty investigation 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:47.800 or reviews by five different departments and six agencies. One 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.040 of these that you probably are already guessing is the 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:56.119 Department of Treasury. So by election day, just so you 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.000 all understand, by election day, according to New York Times, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.880 Elon mus led companies were in several battles across agencies 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:09.400 and departments, including being fined. So that brings us back 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.840 to the Department of Government efficiency. That's for a minute, 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.520 to stop here at what happened with Treasury. So there 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.080 are questions coming in about the Treasury department. What's going on, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.840 How does it impact us? The Department of Treasury literally 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.560 is the entity that prints our money. It is literally 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.119 the entity that is charged with holding banks accountable to 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.400 ensure that our money is protected. Somebody asked about FDIC. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.960 The Department of Treasury is responsible for more than one 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:46.800 billion payments per year, totaling five trillion dollars. Elon Musk 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.600 has said to let him into the Department of Treasury 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.960 because he could trim more than a trillion dollars from 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:58.920 the federal deficit. The payments that the Department of Treasury 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:04.320 oversees include all types of sensitive information, including bank accounts 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.360 and social Security numbers, as well as all of those payments, 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.560 so it is very, very important that we understand what 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:16.040 they have access to at this point. There are several 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.560 laws that Elon Musk's team could be violating. We went 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.240 through some of those relative to a special government employee 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:28.280 and their conflicts of interests, their financial disclosure requirements when 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.320 they're supposed to wall themselves completely off. We know that 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.800 he is an officer of a company that has federal 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.119 government contracts, a founder of a company that has federal 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.919 government contracts, and he is now in there tinkering with 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.359 his competition's payments. It's just a bridge too far from me. 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:45.200 Now. 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.320 I want to also go to OPM, which has not 0:21:48.440 --> 0:22:02.359 been discussed as much. What you should know is OPM 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.160 is discussed, so is USAID. By the way, you all, 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:06.800 i'm sure, have been seeing a lot of things about 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:11.720 USAID in the news. USAID and OPM are talked about 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:16.399 in the Project twenty twenty five. There's one part on 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:18.639 page two seventy one where they're talked about in the 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.080 same paragraph. It is important for you to understand that 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.920 Elon Musk is not doing anything, as Donald Trump said 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:28.879 himself in a press conference, that hasn't already been authorized. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.119 Donald Trump made not necessarily be the one who authorized 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.240 it or one who authorized it. But let me tell 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:36.720 you who is the authors of Project twenty twenty five. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.240 The Heritage Foundation, the same Heritage Foundation that gave Ronald 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.920 Reagan his blueprint, the same Heritage Foundation that gave George 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:47.719 hw and George W. Bush their blueprint. There's nothing new 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.040 under the sun, y'all. They have just renamed the thing 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:52.480 and they've gotten a little more Rogan reckless. The reason 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.399 you see Republican senators and members of the House on 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.960 TV saying tough, it's gonna be alright, y'all, just don't 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.160 want to trim the fat because you like bureaucracy. 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:03.400 That's not it. 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:06.680 They want bureaucracy, but only if it results in payments 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.320 for their friends, and if they can be punitive and 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:13.119 stop payments for grants that look into climate change and 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:17.760 grants that go to HBCUs and opportunities like funding people's 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:20.280 social security because you know they've been trying to cut 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:23.239 that for a long time. This is what we end 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:25.680 up with. We talked about the impowerment clause last week 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.879 just a little bit again. It is they're now saying 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:33.320 that it doesn't necessarily have to be empowerment. They are 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:35.480 just reviewing, and that review could be a long time, 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:39.520 which means that they're halting payments. All of that is problematic, 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:43.359 and it is by design in Project twenty twenty five. 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.600 So Office of Personnel Management, which is also referenced several 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.960 times over again in Project twenty twenty five. What you 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:58.480 should know is that Musk associates, musk acolytes, including past 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:02.560 and present employees of his, have taken over OPM, which 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.800 is the Office of Personal Management. Literally, they have put 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:09.200 in sofa beds near the old director's office. They are 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:11.600 demonstrating to them that you can't even get up here 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:14.600 to the fifth floor if you don't have a security clearance. 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:17.000 And we don't approve you. And while they're doing all 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:20.600 of that, they are locking out senior officials at OPM. 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:25.639