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🗓️ 24 April 2025
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The radical left's calculated effort to attack Elon Musk makes zero sense when considering Musk's contributions to the world from Tesla to SpaceX to OpenAi to Paypal.
The people who are passionate about the environment and EVs should be Musk's biggest fans.
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Dr. Phil here, and I'm talking to you about a story that is in the news, |
0:05.4 | and I'm really curious how you feel about this and how you're going to interpret it. |
0:10.6 | I'm really wondering if you think this is something that the left has brought about, |
0:15.8 | and if you do, if you think they have won or if you think you have lost, if you think the |
0:27.1 | U.S. has lost. |
0:30.0 | What I'm talking about is Elon Musk will step down in his role as the head of Doge. |
0:38.3 | Now, Doge is the Department of Government Efficiency. |
0:42.3 | Now, if you look at the polls, |
0:44.3 | 51% of the people say that they don't like Elon Musk in that role. |
0:49.3 | 37% of the people say, yeah, I think it's a good thing. |
0:52.3 | Now, the purpose of this Department of Government Efficiency has been to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse. |
1:01.2 | Everybody agrees that that's a good thing, but a lot of people didn't agree with the way Elon Musk was doing it. |
1:08.0 | They said it's just kind of slash and burn, taken a chainsaw to a lot of agencies and this sort of thing. This wasn't right. They didn't like that. Jobs were being cut. It created a problem. I don't know. It seems to me that we had a very intelligent guy bringing his expertise in business to the government to try to get |
1:33.8 | rid of a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse. |
1:38.2 | And so what happened is he started getting targeted. |
1:42.9 | They started targeting, they thought, his businesses. They started |
1:47.1 | attacking Teslas. And maybe people are celebrating on the left. People that were vandalizing |
1:52.8 | property. People that were destroying Tesla automobiles, attacking dealerships, gunfire, |
1:59.9 | firebombings. There were 500-plus organized Tesla takedowns. |
2:05.8 | I read an article about that today by Chris Rufo. He talked about this process called power mapping, |
2:13.7 | something that the left does and has done for a long time where they look at the other side, |
2:20.0 | the enemy, as they call them, and say, all right, we're going to map this out. |
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