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BREAKING : Ron DeSantis Reacts To Elon Musk's Political Party: Not worried · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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  Podcast. This is a show where we discuss
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  the critical crossroads, the Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The
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  Boring Company, and Neurolink. I'm your host, Will Walden.
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  And final thing I'll say is, you know, I've been getting asked
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  about this idea of, of this Elon Musk political party.
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  And I just want to say, I mean, I think Elon Musk has been, you
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  know, one of the the most innovative entrepreneurs, not
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  just in our country's history, but probably in world history.
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  And I think he's done a lot. I think he's got a lot more left
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  in the tank. Obviously, I appreciated him his
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  efforts in the 2024 election. And I've been a big supporter of
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  the idea of, of the doge because the federal government's
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  spending way too much money. We, we've adopted that in
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  Florida, even though we have a budget surplus and are paying
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  down debt and we have the second lowest spending per capita of
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  all 50 states, but we're still doing it in Florida because I
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  always want to do better. But when Elon was in the doge,
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  there were grants that had been done that we rejected in
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  Florida. We, we would call Elon, they
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  would cancel it immediately. We sent over almost a billion
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  dollars to where they were able to recover.
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  There were DEI, there were stuff we're not doing.
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  And so, so there was a lot that was done that was very, very
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  positive. And so I think I've been a big
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  fan of what it, what he's done. The problem is when you do
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  another party, especially if you're running on some of the
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  issues that he talks about, you know, that would end up, if he
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  funds Senate candidates and House candidates and competitive
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  races, that would likely end up meaning the Democrats would win
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  all the competitive Senate and House races.
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  And so, look, I'm a Republican, you know, I don't want to see
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  that happen. I think if you want to, you
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  know, get get involved and hold accountable.
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  You know, we do have a problem in the Republican Party with
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  these DC congressmen. They always run saying there's
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  out of control spending and they're going to spend less, and
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  they never do it. And so there's a gap between the
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  campaign rhetoric and then the performance.
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  Elon was doing Doge and a lot of Congress didn't want anything to
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  do with actually adopting the doge cuts, just like they didn't
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  want to. They haven't wanted to adopt the
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  Trump executive orders on immigration and all these other
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  things, which I think you have to adopt in law if you want them
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  to have staying power. So I think there is a lot of
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  frustration with the gap between the rhetoric in their district
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  and the performance once they get into DC.
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  But the way you do that is expose that in a primary and
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  show that there's a another way forward.
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  Honestly, if you're concerned about the debt, I wouldn't even
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  worry about that because I don't think just electing a few better
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  people is going to change your trajectory.
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  We need the incentives in Washington are going to lead to
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  these outcomes really regardless of the outcome of elections at
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  this point. So you need to do a balance
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  budget amendment to the US Constitution, and you can do
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  that through the states. You can do it through Article 5.
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  We've got 28 states that have approved this.
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  There's another four or five that are on the docket.
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  Once you hit 34, then you write an amendment and then the states
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  are able to ratify that you need 3/4.
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  You know, if Elon wanted to weigh in on that and work on
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  those state legislation, I mean, he would have a monumental
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  impact on doing this. And we also need term limits for
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  members of Congress. And so you can do both of those
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  things, but I think if you did that, all of a sudden that moves
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  the needle on both of those issues.
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  You know, under Article 5 of the Constitution, you are going to
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  see major, major positive changes.
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  But you have to change the incentives and the structures up
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  there because we've seen a time and time again, you have the
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  rhetoric, same results. You have the rhetoric, same
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  results when it comes to debt. And so this is one way to do it
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  and it's within our grass to do it.
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  Florida's already certified both of those term limits has really
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  gained a lot of steam over the last couple years.
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  There was only one or two states that had done it like 5 or 6
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  years ago. Now you've got a lot more
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  balanced budget amendment has been has been out there for a
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  long time. A lot of people have wanted to
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  do it. That's very close.
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  And if you do those things and I think you actually have a chance
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  to really change Congress. But as it is now, you know, even
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  if somehow a third party could elect some people that were, you
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  know, so-called fiscal conservative, I don't think it
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  would even move the needle even if they got elected.
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  And we know that they wouldn't get elected because it's really
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  one or two parties. So you're either just taking
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  votes away from one side or the other is really how it ends up
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  doing. So, you know, I'm a believer in
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  trying to work this stuff out through the Republican process
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  rather than do that. But I think even more than that,
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  doing these amendments which are within our grasp, it doesn't
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  require Congress. You can do it through Article 5
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  and do it through the states. You know, that would have a huge
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  impact on the trajectory of the country.
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  You know, in the late 90s, they were one vote away in the US
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  Senate from passing a balanced budget amendment.
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  It would have had to been ratified by the states, but I
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  think it would have been at the time.
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  Now, we had a budget surplus federally at the time.
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  Just imagine how different our fiscal trajectory would be right
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  now had that balanced budget amendment passed 20, 2627 years
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  ago. I mean, we wouldn't be having
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  the, you know, some of these debates about, about all the
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  mounting debt. And so we were very close to
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  doing it. And I think because we were in
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  pretty good fiscal shape, I think people just said it was
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  better to not, you know, the, the kind of the, the, the, the
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  swing votes. Well, why tie hands?
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  Things are going well. But had they done that, man, we
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  would be in really good shape. So let's do a balanced budget
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  amendment, tie the hands of the big spenders term limit them so
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  they can't as sconce themselves in office for decades like Nancy
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  Pelosi. You know, I don't know why.
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  I mean, like if she were to run a hedge fund with her stock
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  trades, I mean, man, she would make a lot of money.
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  So why don't we do that? That is achievable.
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  And especially I mean, if somebody as significant as Elon
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  wants to get in the game on that, he will have AI think very
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  consequential impact on that. And I think would be just the
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  type that could bring this across the finish line.
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  And wouldn't we want to see these guys have some limits on
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  how much damage that they can do?
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  So I'm, I think Washington needs to be over all the 100%.
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  I, I just don't think a, a, a third party's going to do it.
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  But I do think these, these amendments can make a big, big
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  difference. OK, thanks everyone.
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