Back to episode — Episode 2748 CWSA 02/12/25
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United States. The pushback is not sitting well with the co-president who held court blah blah blah blah. It's all so stupid that it's barely worth repeating. You know it was so annoying when I thought MSNBC was at least trying to be honest or trying to give the news. Once you realize that they're not trying it's just funny so I just mock them. Well one of the things that came out of that Oval Of…
← Previous segment →ng right. Now he did complete his point which is $50 million for condoms seems like a lot no matter where they're going and doesn't sound like something we want to pay for. So his point stood. It just wasn't as clean and politically damaging as if it had been the other Gaza. But still it looks like something that the public is not going to support.
But that's like a breath of fresh air. And one of the things that I think Musk is doing has more value than the cuts. So let's say the Musk cuts, I don't know, one to two trillion out of the budget. That's going to look like the biggest thing anybody ever did anywhere. Two trillion dollars per year. That's per year. That would save the country. It would put us back in a good track. It would be the big thing that happened in my lifetime.
But there's something he's doing at the same time that's a little bit invisible that's bigger than that. It's bigger than two trillion dollars a year and that is he's teaching us how to do it. He's showing us systems versus goals. He's showing us how to move fast and break things. He's showing us how to get the best people and settle for nothing less. And the best people can do things that the second best people just can't ever do. The second best people aren't just slower at getting things done than the best people. They can't do it. You need the smartest people in the world sometimes and this is one of those cases.
So watching him just attack it and then be a fast adjustment, be able to quickly say that didn't work change it, that didn't work change it, that didn't work change it. Oh I got that thing wrong about the condoms. Good. Keep me honest. Make sure you keep fact checking. That's worth more than two trillion dollars a year because if he can teach that, let's say everything about the boldness of it to the method he's using, we're going to be studying his methods forever.
And one of the methods of course is moving fast and overwhelming the resistance. The resistance being the bureaucracy. So if we learn what he's doing which is different from maybe what a lot of other people would do in the same situation but of course he's got a longer track record of making this kind of stuff work, if he makes this work the United States will have a new DNA. He's reprogramming our DNA as a country because we're all learning this. We're all learning that the impossible is possible.
Can't go to the moon or can't go to Mars? Yes we can. Can't build electric car? Sure we can. Can't put a device on your head that reads your mind? Well maybe we can. Can't cut the budget? Get out of the way. See what happens. So number one he's teaching us that you can do the impossible but you're going to have to stay up all night, you're going to have the best team and you're going to have to balls
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to the wall 100 percent commitment, lots of good partners. You can get it done. These are deep deep learnings that will become part of our personalities without doing anything about it. We're just watching but he's training us what works and what doesn't in these big big big situations. That if we learn that that's worth more than two trillion dollars a year. It will put us in a winning position…
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