This is the Tom Hartman program.

My S&BC, Rachel Maddo, reported on armored Tesla with great humor. I mean, you know, she was pointing out the

the Tesla cyber truck when Elon Musk rolled it out. He was talking about how this thing is

bulletproof. So he had his chief engineer come out and throw a metal ball at the window and it

shattered the window. And then he did it again, right? It was hysterical. It was genuinely

hysterical. But this was all in the

context of it being reported that the Department of State, under Joe Biden, had put out a request

for bids for armored electric vehicles. They wanted to clean up. They wanted to get the, you know,

the Department of State vehicles off fossil fuels and put them on electricity, and that Tesla had

initially, apparently gotten the contract for $400 million for these things. That website that was

listing that at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, their fleet of roughly 3,000

armored vehicles, apparently that has vanished. The State Department removes Tesla's name from

planned $400 million contract amid much scrutiny. Doesn't mean they're not going to get the money.

It just means they're no longer talking about it. So we'll see.

My guess is, though, that they're just not, they don't want electric vehicles no matter what,

and this is just a small drop in the bucket for Musk. I mean, he makes most of his Tesla's in China

for the Chinese market. That's where, at least with regard to Tesla, he's making a pile of money,

which may have something to do with

why we are endorsing the idea that giant great power nations can seize their smaller neighbors.

You know, hey, Russia, take Ukraine. Hey, China. Take Taiwan. Hey, America. Take Greenland. I mean, you know, that's the direction we're going.

Meanwhile, have you ever heard of the God Squad? The guy, I mean, it's not their official name.

It's their kind of stage name. I don't know. It's a committee that is led by the Secretary

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