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Ah, you. The weary, taxpaying, democracy-clutching audience. Today, we delve into the charming saga of the richest man on the planet who fancies himself a space-faring philosopher-king, a man who gobbles up government contracts with one hand while strangling that same government with the other. Yes, the celestial swindler, the oligarch extraordinaire, the man who’d sell you a ticket to Mars but can’t keep his own Teslas from auto-immolation. And yet, despite his cartoonish villainy, your elected representatives still shovel public money into his bottomless pit of corporate welfare like devout worshippers feeding a golden calf.

Mr. M has built an empire not just on rockets and electric cars, but on the unshakable belief that the rules don’t apply to him. He rakes in billions from federal contracts, then turns around and declares that the government is the enemy—like a houseguest who raids your fridge, clogs your commode, then lectures you on the virtues of self-reliance. He’s not just another billionaire padding his wallet with public money—he’s actively working to dismantle the institutions that made his success possible in the first place.

I wish I could just stop and let it all soak in for about three minutes, but dead air is like the Democratic Party and we don’t need any more listless, spineless, meaningless nothingness while the bulldozer rolls over 280 million of us. Pissed? You bet I’m pissed! What in the diddly-frig does it take to get impotent crustaceans like Chuck Schumer who represents the entire Democratic Party for him to not rubber stamp the Sieg Heiling? Why in God’s name would he work hand-in-hand to gut agencies, silence critics, and tilt the scales ever further in favor of a sweaty oligarch?

Traditionally, a government shutdown wiould always reflect on the President first, especially when he has convinced everyone he’s a superhero, flawless, and the most brilliant, amazing, handsome, brilliant, best president ever – even better than George Washington. Plus, he says he loves flip-flops! Who knew? No one knew!

Maybe it's because America is now in such a terrific and totally beautiful Golden Age that winter is hereby abolished and it's going to be summer all year around, summer all the time, folks! Thanks to rising sea levels, we're gonna have so much beachfront property that flip-flops will become the National Shoe of America because you'll be wearing them and dealing with them all the time, while everyone is totally winning and it's gonna be so great, so great. We're continuing to flip-flop on trade policy, which I think all Americans are happy about, and we're going to use the tariffs - which we will implement but maybe not yet, but maybe 50% or maybe 25% or 200%... or maybe even no tariffs at all - but we're going to use the tariffs, the tariffs, we're going to use them to take back everything that was stolen from us and so much more. In addition, as of today the illegal and totally unconstitutional boycott of Tesla will end and every American homeowner will be required to purchase a Tesla so they can be totally great and live the American Dream. Every American must buy a Tesla as of today, which are very affordable automobiles - they come at very affordable prices - but every homeowner will be required to purchase a Tesla so that Elon can continue to be able to feed his very big, very big family - boy, he spreads his seed even more maybe than the brown immigrants, who I totally love by the way - but Elon is making a huge sacrifice, a very huge sacrifice, because he loves our country and he wants to save our country and he's doing it all for free - for nothing - just out of the goodness of his heart because he's a patriot, even though he wasn’t born here, and he wants America to succeed.

At least there are several judges now who do want America to succeed and stepped in to try to stop the lunacy. We can only hope that they feel vindicated in doing their constitutional duty and that others will join them to empower even more judges to do as the founding daddies had intended.

Otherwise, we are dealing with a billionaire so deeply entwined with government handouts that if the spigot were ever turned off, he might actually have to compete in the free market he claims to love.

But worry not, because tonight’s guest isn’t here to swoon over rocket launches or sing odes to ‘innovation.’ No, we’re joined by Sunjeev Bery, a foreign policy analyst and human rights advocate, who’s working includes the ACLU, Amnesty International, the NRDC and rainforest action network. You’ve probably seen him on the networks and he’s here now to discuss an idea—one so revolutionary that it hasn’t even crossed the timid minds of most Democrats in Congress: cutting M off from the chapped nipple of his government trough. Sunjeev’s here to discuss a new proposal for halting federal contracts with Elon Musk’s companies in a national campaign to get U.S. senators to block all taxpayer funding for the oligarch. Sunjeev Bery, welcome to the show.

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