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🗓️ 28 October 2024
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0:00.0 | From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, October 28th. |
0:14.7 | So you probably heard in the coverage of the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden last night. |
0:22.4 | That before Trump came on, they had a comedian named Tony Hinchcliff, warm up the crowd with some |
0:27.9 | racist and anti-Semitic jokes. We'll get to that. But here are a few things being much |
0:32.3 | less covered that might also be worth knowing. They had the richest man in the world on stage asking for a tax |
0:39.8 | cut. You might have heard of him. His name is Elon Musk. At the end of the day, you're being taxed. |
0:47.3 | You're being taxed. All government spending is taxation. So whether it's direct taxation or all government |
0:54.1 | spending, it's either becomes inflation or it's direct taxation. Your whether it's direct taxation or all government spending, it's either becomes |
0:55.0 | inflation or it's direct taxation. Your money is being wasted and the Department of Government |
1:00.7 | Divacency is going to fix that. We're going to get the government off your back and out of your |
1:10.1 | pocketbook. And out of your pocketbook. |
1:11.9 | And out of your pocketbooks. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, according to the list |
1:16.8 | that Forbes puts out every year, the richest man in the world advocating for a tax cut at the Trump |
1:22.0 | rally at Madison Square Garden last night. Musk, of course, is an immigrant, and here's how he was introduced by another billionaire, |
1:30.4 | Howard Lutnik, the CEO of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald. |
1:35.0 | Give it up for the greatest capitalist in the history of the United States of America. |
1:42.7 | Elon Musk. |
1:44.6 | Greatest capitalist in the history of the United States of America, Elon Musk. Greatest capitalist in the history of the United States of America, by Trump's telling, |
1:51.3 | turns out to be an immigrant. |
1:54.6 | Interesting. |
1:56.0 | And after Musk and just before Trump came another immigrant. |
1:59.7 | Relevant maybe that she's another white immigrant. |
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