n't even be there if not for me. So I made that happen. Literally they're trying to hide their contribution to the country. They're trying to hide it, and they're trying really hard.

So yes, that's a good idea. We should know who does what.

You might also know that the monstrosity of a budget was going to refund the Global Engagement Center. Now that's part of the big industrial — what do you call it? — the censorship industrial complex. This is the thing that we want to kill more than just about anything. These are the people who came after the Federalist and Daily Wire. So this is a group that's literally trying to close down right-leaning publications. And you're telling me that the Speaker of the House signed off on this? What? The Republican Speaker of the House signed off on funding the Global Engagement Center, whose primary mission is to shut down Republican stuff without good reasons? How in the world did this happen?

And do you think that Speaker Johnson should lose his position because he allowed this to happen? Yes. Yeah, hard yes. Yeah, yeah. You should lose your job if you do this. This is not a small deal. It might seem small if you don't follow the news in detail. This is a big deal. It's the biggest deal. The censorship is basically the government because if you can stop people from knowing what's happening, then you can control what happens without directly getting elected. Even so, the censorship thing is kind of the engine that drives everything because opinion drives everything after censorship.

So yeah, I think you have to lose your job if you put this in a bill and ask your own team to sign for their own destruction. You have to lose your job. And I didn't personally have any big problems with Speaker Johnson. I mean, I know that a lot of people had issues, but I didn't follow it too closely. But no, there's no way that you should keep your job if you signed off on this. No way. You need to take a step back. You know, maybe keep his job in Congress, but no, you can't be the leader. This is not leadership.

And I was really touched by Mollie Hemingway, who works at the Federalist. She said, well, basically she said she takes it personally. Like she's worked so hard and the Federalist has worked so hard to make sure that Republican and conservative views are fully expressed. So basically fighting hard for your team if you're Republican or conservative, fighting hard for your team. And then the team puts in basically the destruction of her entity, and they put that in a bill. Are you kidding me? This is just such a slap in the face and a stab in the back for both the Daily Wire and the Federalist. This is so inappropriate. Like this is wow. I mean, it's just head-shaking. How many Republicans were going to vote for that?

Like if Musk had not stepped in — and again, Musk was really empowered by the base, so it's not just Musk, of course.

So here's what I think. I think there's something incredibly good happening, like incredibly good. And I feel like a separate branch of government has formed spontaneously because it was required. We all noticed that the system the way it was working was just driving us off a cliff. We were just going to drive ourselves into debt and starve us until we're all dead. So nothing was working.

But here's what I think has happened. And I think Trump gets all the credit, right? Trump gets all the credit because Trump managed to attract exactly the right amount of talent. And that didn't happen on its own. So if you want to say, oh, you know, he had all the help from RFK Jr. and Vivek and from Elon Musk, so really they were the powers that pushed him over the finish line. And there's something to that. But remember that only happened because Trump made himself attractive to voters as well as important smart people, right? The boss gets all the credit. It doesn't matter what Elon does or Vivek does or RFK Jr. And by the way, they would get tons of credit for doing good work, but the boss is the one who attracts them. The boss is the one who has to say yes.

Trump of course was fully supportive of both Vivek and Elon as well as the whole base and saying, nope, can't sign this thing.

Now here's what's great. I believe that we have somewhat accidentally evolved into a system which I wanted to call a Council of Elders, but it makes us sound old, so I'm not going to say that. And just to simplify, there are a number of opinion people who have more than a million followers on X who, if they were all opposed to a thing, it would be really hard for Elon to go forward with that thing or anybody else who was on that side.

So I don't think it's necessarily the total number of voters because they don't get to have a say until the next election. But I do think that Elon and Trump specifically are really, really plugged in to what — I'll just randomly pick a number — I'm going to say the top 50 smart people on their side. Top 50. What do you think the top 50 smartest people who lean right said about this bill? I'll bet all 50 said no. If all 50 of the smartest people — most, let's say most persuasive, I want to say smartest — if your 50 top most persuasive people are on the same side, and I think they were, that empowers Trump. And that's what empowers everybody who works for him and, you know, Elon in this situation.

So the will of the people is usually pretty accurately captured by the people who have over a million followers. So you're not getting it directly, but we all have feet in the real world. So I feel like it's almost like another form of government where the people inform the people, the influencers who have a million-plus followers. Elon is following to follow the people who have a million plus. You can tell he responded to me yesterday when I weighed in on this topic. You know, there was Elon's comment. So we know that he's watching at least the larger accounts, and that allows him to know when he's got backing and when he doesn't.

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