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Blue Purge List Includes Musk · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red. Turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. Elon Musk is back in the news.
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  Speaker 1: He's spending hundreds of millions of dollars to support Republican
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  Speaker 1: candidates in the midterms. For that, and for being an
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  Speaker 1: ally of Donald Trump, Musk also is in the news
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  Speaker 1: because Democrats are publicly salivating at the prospect of persecuting
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  Speaker 1: and prosecuting Musk. Not for any crimes, just for being
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  Speaker 1: who he is. When Musk launched the Department of Government Efficiency, DOJ,
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  Speaker 1: and started defunding and dismantling departments and programs loved by
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  Speaker 1: the left, there was an attempt to brand Musk as
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  Speaker 1: some kind of illegal, unconstitutional pirate arbitrarily slashing away at government.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work in part because Musk, as planned, spent
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  Speaker 1: only a few months leading DOJ and then returned to
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  Speaker 1: the private sector. The smear also didn't stick because it
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  Speaker 1: was a silly argument. The president is the head of
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  Speaker 1: the executive branch. He is the CEO of his branch
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  Speaker 1: of government. He can't eliminate departments and programs mandated by
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  Speaker 1: laws passed by Congress, but there are huge swaths of
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  Speaker 1: the executive bureaucracy that are subject to the managerial discretion
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  Speaker 1: of the president. The president hired a consultant, Musk, to
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  Speaker 1: help streamline the bureaucracy. Everything Doge does is in service
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  Speaker 1: to the president. There's nothing illegal or unconstitutional about it.
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  Speaker 1: The left seemed to lose interest in Musk when he
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  Speaker 1: left Doge and then had a falling out with the
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  Speaker 1: president over the big beautiful bill which Musk opposed. But
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  Speaker 1: Musk has gravitated back toward Trump and is engaged in
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  Speaker 1: this election cycle. So he is again being targeted by
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  Speaker 1: the left. Don't take my word for it. Take a
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  Speaker 1: spin through social media, podcasts, and news and political programs.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't a James O'Keefe or Nick Shirley undercover scoop
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  Speaker 1: rooted out of dark corners. It's out in the open.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the overall purge demanded by Senator Elissa Slotkin.
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan Democrat who wants a scorched-earth assault on all
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  Speaker 1: people and organizations on the right for its own sake
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  Speaker 1: and for what she called the deterrent effect it will
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  Speaker 1: have on young talent scared away from entering the political
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  Speaker 1: arena in service to Republican or conservative causes. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro,
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  Speaker 1: all the worst leftist totalitarian thugs of history would approve.
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  Speaker 1: Musk says, by himself, has done more to benefit humanity
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  Speaker 1: than all of his leftist haters combined. And now he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about giving every American child a share in SpaceX. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: he does not seem worried about this latest threat. He
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  Speaker 1: mused that one of his detractors really wants to go
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  Speaker 1: to prison. Apparently meaning Musk will fight fire with fire, legally,
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  Speaker 1: if anyone comes after him. If such confrontations materialize, I'll
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  Speaker 1: bet on Musk to prevail. That's Check with Chip. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.