The Elon Musk rampage through the federal bureaucracy continues, and J.D. Vance flexes America's AI muscle. We'll discuss

all this more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Larry. I'm joined as always by the right

honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the Dominator, Dominic Pino, and the notorious M.B.D. Michael

Brendan Doherty. You are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast or sponsors this episode.

Our Donors Trust and this new book, The Strategy Dialogues, more about both of them in due course.

If for some reason you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way, you can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts.

And if you like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing five-star review wherever you listen to your podcast. If you don't like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing

five-star review wherever you listen to your podcast. If you don't like what you hear, please forget,

I said anything. So MBD, we had a joint Elon Musk Donald Trump presser in the Oval Office,

joined adorably by Elon Musk's four-year-old boy X.

And it's just another instance of something we've never seen before, something we're never

going to see again, this guy wearing a baseball cap and a casual shirt with a jacket over it

in the Oval Office with this kid picking his nose

and the President of the United States kind of letting this weird guy in the hat talk for 30 minutes

while he gazes at the child and they look back and forth.

And this is another Elon Musk operation where he's explaining what he's up to, making the case that you can't

have a true democracy if unelected bureaucrats have too much power and aren't subject to political

control, and then dropping the bombshell that there's a limestone mine where all federal

retirement records are kept. And I follow this terrible account,

Aaron Roper, you know, this progressive guy who's his whole job is to make conservatives look

bad and very often deceptively edit their videos. And he clipped this, I think, because he assumed

it was some fantastical thing that Elon Musk had just contrived and made up.

...