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Elon Musk: “It's coordinated propaganda.”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

Joe Rogan Experience #2281 - Elon Musk part 1

Published February 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 12:54

Exact same thing. And he said, of course it's a Nazi salute. He said that. Right, right. This is how crazy things have gotten, like. Well, I mean, It's coordinated propaganda. So the. You know, it's. Yeah. Coordinated propaganda. I mean, doesn't it seem weird that the legacy media all says the same thing? (12:54–12:57)

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“It's a matter of time before we get hit by an asteroid.”
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“I think we should stop trying to genetically engineer super viruses. It's insane.”
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“It's deliberate propaganda.”
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“The Dem leadership, or, you know, political leadership, they issue their instructions and their puppets carry it out.”
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“Our elected officials have very little power relative to the bureaucracy.”
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“Government funded NGOs are a way to do things that would be illegal if there were the government.”
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“People cash out these nonprofits, they become very wealthy through nonprofits.”
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“It's a gigantic scam. Like one of the biggest, maybe the biggest scam ever.”
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“There's a total number of NGOs, probably millions. But in terms of large NGOs, tens of thousands.”
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“George Soros is like a system hacker. Like he figured out how to hack the system.”
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“Payments [from the Treasury] have no payment categorization code and no description on the payment.”
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“Interest on the national debt exceeds the Defense Department budget.”
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“We're paying over a trillion dollars of interest on the national debt.”
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“The federal government is literally losing $2 trillion a year and it does not pass its audits.”
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“Senator Collins was telling you about how she gave the Navy $12 billion for more submarines, got no extra submarines.”
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“We found just with a basic search of the Social Security database that there were 20 million dead people marked as alive.”
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“Some of them [dead people marked as alive] were getting money.”
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“The various government databases, they don't talk to each other or they talk to each other very poorly.”
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“The main payments computer [at the Treasury] is called pam, like Payment Accounts Master Database.”
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“Pam [the Treasury's main payments computer] is responsible for almost $5 trillion payments a year, roughly a billion dollars an hour.”
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“Our recommendation to the treasury and the Federal Reserve is like, we need to make the payment categorization codes mandatory.”
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“My guess is that [making payment categorization codes mandatory] probably saves 100 billion a year.”
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“There's a lot of payments that, where someone just approved the payment, but then that payment officer changed jobs or, or retired or died…”
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“It's a target rich environment for saving money.”
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“The ap, they ran an international news story saying that Doge fired air traffic controllers, but we didn't fire any air traffic controllers…”
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“In fact, we're trying to hire air traffic controllers, not fire them.”
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“A lot of really qualified air traffic controllers were pushed out because of DEI stuff.”
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“There's a talent shortage in air traffic control because of DEI and not hiring people on merit.”
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“I think we should not put the public safety at risk because of some demented philosophy.”
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“And the CIA too, I believe. The CIA was in there too.”
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“Where is the evidence? I mean, the guy has, like, tons of videos and recordings.”
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“Apparently they discovered a whole bunch of stuff at the Southern District of New York.”
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“I believe the last formal audit [of Fort Knox] was in the 50s.”
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“The net result is inflation, which is effectively a tax on everyone.”
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“The Defense Department hasn't passed an audit in I don't know how many years.”
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“Pentagon will like their accounting error. The stuff that they lose in the couch cushions is like 20, 30 billion dollars a year.”
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“Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”
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“The future obligations [of retirement payments] will be much worse in the future.”
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“The actual national debt is like double what people think it is because of the future obligations.”
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“In New York State, illegal aliens can already vote in state and city elections.”
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“FEMA, the agency that was paying for illegal aliens to stay at luxury hotels in New York.”
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“New York sued the federal government to get the money [for luxury hotels for illegal aliens].”
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“They still Press send on $80 million to luxury hotels in New York.”
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“It's only a matter of time before [illegal aliens] become citizens.”
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“The basic incentive here is the more illegals that the Democrats can bring in, the more likely they are to win.”
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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit.”
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“It's borderline illegal to be a Republican in California. In San Francisco or LA, it's borderline illegal to be a Republican.”
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“We reverted the Apple change inside the app.”
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“And they've been up there for like eight months, so a little longer than expected.”
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