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Elon Musk: “Our elected officials have very little power relative to the…”

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

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Joe Rogan Experience #2281 - Elon Musk part 1

Published | Video Starts at 16:03

They started saying I was a threat to democracy. But if you just replace threat to democracy with threat to bureaucracy, it makes total sense. I mean, the reality is that Our elected officials have very little power relative to the bureaucracy. until Doge. So Doge is a threat to the bureaucracy? It's the first threat to the bureaucracy. Normally the bureaucracy eats revolutions for breakfast. (16:03–16:11)

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