imself. And he just tore into it. He tore into it. And when he was done, I said to myself, I have now heard the important elements. That's amazing.

Now at the same time, Grok was able to look at the bill and also summarize it. Now unfortunately the summary was itself like 20 pages or something. So even a 20-page summary doesn't help you as much as you hoped it would because there are too many different elements or completely different topics are all being stuffed into this monstrosity. So if all you did is read the summary of a thing, you wouldn't necessarily know what it was about because you kind of need to get the context. So I don't think the summary helped us as much as it should, but it did confirm there are way too many things in the bill and we don't have to live like this.

So Vivek just penetrates this thing like a spear. You know, like he just stuck a spear through it and he's holding it up and saying, oh. And then enter Elon Musk. Elon Musk, probably one of the most credible people in the world, known to be smart. We know he's on our side — our side being the country, not our side being the Republicans, but the country. He's on the countryside. And he said hard no. And then he actually escalated it because he kind of posted about it a bunch. And he got all the way up to anybody who votes for it should be primaried. And he's the guy who has hundreds of millions that he could put into a race to primary anybody. And all the politicians are afraid of being primaried.

So within, I don't know, how long did it take? Just a few hours. The bill went from something we assumed would be signed because that's the way it always happened no matter how much you complained to dead. To dead.

Now what happened with the blowback when it got killed by what looked like Elon Musk's work primarily? Well, would you be surprised to know that the Democrats backed up to more generic complaints about things? That's right. Learning absolutely nothing about anything. Republicans have specific complaints that they, thanks to Vivek and others, managed to pull out of this thing. Very specific complaints. This is a bad idea. Don't do this. This is a bad idea.

And their complaint was, instead of defending the bill — how many of you have noticed that there isn't a single Democrat defending the bill? How many of you did not notice that until I just said it? Zero. Not a single Democrat supports the bill. None. So they have to be mad because they have to oppose Republicans, but they don't like the bill either because there's nobody who's dumb enough who thinks that a foot-tall bill packed with crap is a good idea. Democrats don't think it. Republicans don't think it.

So the only thing they had was something about Musk. So they go for the, oh, he's a co-president. Well, he's like the real Speaker of the House. Oh, I guess Trump's not running things. I guess an unelected person is running the country now. And they all sort of simultaneously went to attack Elon Musk. Again, remember they also agree with him. They're attacking him for something they agree with, which is this bill is a ridiculous monstrosity and we should not be governing this way. They agree with that, and they still went after him.

But their argument was sort of childlike. They just wanted to say stuff like, oh, Trump and Musk sitting in a tree. They must be lovers now. Oh, why did Trump just delegate everything to an unelected person? All these generic crap.

So I weighed in a little bit on it and said Musk doesn't have any power from the Republicans. It was somebody who said Republicans gave their power to Musk and he's unelected. And I said Musk doesn't have any power. He has no power. He has only the power of the support of the people under the following conditions: it's common sense, we all agree with him, and in this case both sides agree. Democrats and Republicans, everybody agrees with him, and he's working for the benefit of the people obviously. Now, is it good for Musk's own companies? Of course. Is it good for my company? Of course. It's good for everybody if you can fix the budget.

So as long as he's working for the people and it's all the people and as long as it's common sense and as long as he does everything in public and as long as he couldn't get away with any of it unless he had massive backing by at least one of the parties, the one in charge, I'm good with that.

And the people who said but he wasn't elected, he wasn't elected, I say that's true of all of Trump's advisers. You know, the cabinet maybe needs to be vetted and approved, but if Trump decides you're going to be my adviser — you know, my Kellyanne Conway or something, my Vivek — they're not voted. So Musk is a citizen who has the power to make recommendations and the power to say things in public. But if the Republicans had been completely in favor of this bill, even if Elon thought it was a bad idea, would he have been able to kill it? I don't think so.

So here's the thing that the Democrats can't understand because they're kind of a top-down organization. You know, the orders come from who knows where at the top and go down. But Trump only exists because the base wants him to. Musk is only part of this process because the base wants him to. Vivek is only part of the process because the base wants him to, etc., etc., etc. So the base is getting what they want.

If Democrats think, oh, these rich people, these rich people have taken over without any votes, nothing like that has happened. The so-called rich people, even Trump, have very little ability to do anything outside of what the base wants them to do. That's how populism works.

So then they start complaining about the fact that the Republicans have a billionaire who's working on their side. Oh, so I guess you only care about the millionaire. To which I say, have you heard of Soros and Reid Hoffman and Mark Cuban and Bill Gates? I mean, there are a lot of billionaires out there. I think they're just mad because we got the best one. If you were to rank the billionaires, we got the best one.

Bill Ackman, another billionaire, suggests that the bills should be required to have a footnote so you know which Congressperson added which provisions so you know who put in the bad stuff. And I said to myself, wait a minute, we don't know that? You know, maybe I didn't think it'd be part of the bill, but I thought in some way that would be part of the public record. But it's not. So this bill is so bad that the people who added things to it don't want you to know their names. Literally. There was nobody who came forward and said, oh, good news, people, that thing in that bill, that was all me. That would