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't you call that a really good job? Because remember at least the 400,000 are not all but a lot of them are the worst. I don't know what percentage I don't think it's a very high percentage actually but if they got a lot of the bad people first I don't know that feels very successful. I would give a high mark for that number of people in six months. David Sacks as you know he's in the administrat…

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boost. Now how do you interpret that? This is being reported by Just the News. How do you understand that except for a way for the governor to control the news? If you want your subsidy you better do positive reporting about me or do you think it's just another way for the government to launder money? Do you think that there's anybody who's like a good friend or relative perhaps of Newsom who might be a recipient of some of those subsidies? Well that's the way it usually goes on the Democrat side. If you hear they've created any kind of funding or subsidies for anything the first thing you could know is that that money is going to go to their cronies and people are going to give some of it back to the politicians who created that law. So I would say every part of this looks dirty to me.

Well the Pope has weighed in. He's slamming Elon Musk for what he calls obscene greed. He said talking about money. He said if that is the only thing that has any value anymore then we're in big trouble. And he pointed out the continuous wider income gap. He said yesterday there was a news that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world. And then he says what does that mean? And so he thinks that's bad. If the only thing that has any value anymore we're in trouble blah blah blah.

Now I don't want to criticize the Pope but I would point out that the Pope's expertise does not seem to extend to the business world. Let me explain what the trillion dollars is all about. The trillion dollars is not what he's going to spend on buying what? Better t-shirts. Elon Musk wears basically a t-shirt and jeans every single day. Like what's he spending his trillion on? Is it because he has a private jet that he flies around? That would be a necessity for anyone who has that many businesses. If you have more than one business and you're a global kind of a company and you need to run businesses in different places and you've got yeah private plane is just business. There's nothing wrong with that. And it's not like he even has a mansion or anything. He doesn't have a mansion. I don't know if he ever will. He seems uninterested in that kind of stuff. So Elon Musk is the least consumer driven person I've ever seen. Steve Jobs you know arguably was in that domain. But I think it's a complete misunderstanding that the trillion dollars is just his money. No it's not. The trillion dollars is the value of SpaceX and Tesla and those other companies. He's building robots and going to Mars and solving all these physical problems with the brain chip thing. That trillion dollars is almost I'd say 98% for the public good. He only does companie

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s that are for the public good. He's not making a video game although he might someday. The things he does are so obviously good for the country if not the world. At the very least it makes the US more competitive. But it bothers me a little that the Pope would weigh in on this and be so wrong about understanding the general situation. I want Elon Musk to have two trillion because his history is t…

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