Elon Musk - The Federal Government Grinch
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 31 days from today, Donald Trump will raise his hand, swear the oath, and become president of the United States. |
| 0:08.0 | But already, his election victory has had enormous impacts, at least for some people. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the warning. |
| 0:16.0 | Elon Musk, the real president, the man with unprecedented, unelected power in the United States, |
| 0:23.6 | who has shut down the government for Trump in the name of Trump. |
| 0:27.8 | The Musk shutdown is here. |
| 0:30.8 | And if you don't like it, there's only one thing to do about it. |
| 0:34.4 | And you have to wait two years. |
| 0:36.6 | It's to vote them out of office. There is a single, |
| 0:40.3 | simple question that Democrats have to place on the ballot before the American people. It's this, |
| 0:46.8 | are you ready to make it stop? And here's the deal. The American people are going to be ready to |
| 0:52.7 | make it stop before it begins. |
| 0:55.3 | But suffering sometimes is the best teacher. |
| 0:58.8 | The warnings went unheated. |
| 1:01.2 | And Donald Trump has won. |
| 1:03.3 | No, it's not a mandate. |
| 1:05.4 | It's not what Ronald Reagan did in 1980 or 1984. |
| 1:09.8 | In fact, when all of the votes are counted, it's the 18th placed |
| 1:14.6 | mandate. But it was a sweep, and it could have been seen coming from a long, long, long way |
| 1:22.5 | away. And it was by some, by me, and by others. But reality was ignored. |
| 1:29.7 | Here's Joe Scarborough, making broadcast history. |
| 1:32.8 | The first person ever to look into a camera and to say to his audience, |
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