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"You want the least amount of government possible."
"I like solving problems. I like building things."
ELON'S CONFESSION PROVES WASHINGTON IS DESIGNED TO DESTROY ITS REFORMERS
This is the message we send to anyone who tries to clean up Washington:
Try to help us, and we’ll destroy you and everything you’ve built...
When Elon says he wouldn't do DOGE again knowing people would burn his cars in response, he's not being weak; he's acknowledging that our political system has evolved into an organism that attacks its own antibodies.
Consider what Elon accomplished before touching government: revolutionized electric vehicles against every established automaker, landed rockets backwards on floating platforms when NASA said it was impossible, created a satellite constellation providing internet to war zones and disaster areas, pioneered neural interfaces that help paralyzed people walk.
Each achievement required defeating entrenched interests who said he'd fail.
But those were merely corporate competitors and skeptics.
Washington is a different beast.
Washington doesn't just resist change; it destroys change agents.
The burning cars tell the real story.
When you try to cut government spending, you're not debating policy; you're threatening thousands of interconnected interests that survive on waste.
Every inefficiency has a constituency.
Every redundant program has defenders.
Every dollar saved is someone's dollar lost, and they'll make you pay personally for threatening their revenue stream.
They don't argue your proposals; they attack your existence.
This is why government never shrinks, only grows.
The system selects for people willing to play along, not those who might fix it.
Anyone competent enough to reform government is successful enough to have something to lose, and the system ensures they lose it.
Elon has billions of dollars and still concluded the personal destruction wasn't worth the attempt.
What chance does anyone else have?
The tragedy isn't that Elon regrets trying to help.
It's that his regret is rational.
When fixing waste makes you more enemies than friends, when efficiency threatens more interests than inefficiency, when the reward for public service is public destruction, the system isn't broken.
It's performing exactly as designed: protecting itself from anyone who might actually change it.
Source: https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1998562744665039041?s=20
ELON: DOGE CUT OFF THE MONEY FLOW AND THE SYSTEM HATED IT “I mean, the thing is, I think instead of doing DOGE, I would’ve basically worked on my companies, essentially… and the cars, they wouldn’t have been burning the cars. If you stop money going to political corruption, they will lash out big time. They really want the money to keep flowing. So if you stop it from flowing, there’s a very strong reaction to stopping the money flow.” Elon wasn’t talking theory, he was describing Washington’s immune response to accountability.
didn’t just find waste; it starved power.
ELON: WITH DOGE, WE FOUND $200 BILLION IN ZOMBIE PAYMENTS, WE SHUT THAT DOWN Elon broke it down like a man who walked into government and immediately started deleting nonsense: “I mean, we stopped a lot of funding that really just made no sense. It was entirely wasteful. There was probably a hundred, maybe two hundred billion dollars a year in zombie payments. Simply by enforcing that there be a payment code and an explanation for the payment, the money wouldn’t go out. We made that change to the main Treasury computer, and a bunch of others. It seems insanely obvious, but two or three percent of government payments really shouldn’t be going out. And it’s actually quite hard to stop. It’s a pretty rare individual who would ask the government to stop sending them money.” That’s
in a nutshell, cut the fluff, fix the code, save billions.
ELON: WE LITERALLY MADE UP A DEPARTMENT CALLED DOGE Katie Miller asked the question everyone’s been waiting on: what really happened the day DOGE was born? Elon didn’t overthink it: “I guess I couldn’t believe I was there. It all seemed extremely surreal at the time. You know, DOGE was a made-up name that had been created maybe two or three months before. I was going to call it the Government Efficiency Commission, and then someone on the internet said, no, it should be the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE. I said, that sounds great. So we just kind of made up a department.” Source:
ELON: "THE CONCEPT OF GOOD WOULDN'T EXIST WITHOUT HUMANITY" Katie Miller: "Do you think humanity is inherently good or is it just trying to be?" Elon: "The concept of good wouldn't exist without humanity. I do think humanity is on balance good. I generally think increasing the amount of consciousness in the universe is a good thing. Try to understand the nature of the universe, which you can only do by increasing conscious awareness." Source:
ELON: STARBASE IS THE COOLEST PLACE ON EARTH “I think we needed something inspirational. We kind of have a lot of star things, you know, Starlink, Starship, so where would Starship depart from? Starbase. Starbase is, as you’ve mentioned, probably the coolest place on Earth. It used to be a sandbar down by the Rio Grande, only about three feet above sea level. So we built a gigantic rocket factory and two giant launch towers down by the river, literally within sight of the Rio Grande and on an actual sandbar. It kinda had to have an inspirational name. And then we made it a city, like, legally a city. You don’t hear about new cities being formed that often. The last company town was Disney World. I think Ford had some kind of company town situation, but yeah, Disney World is literally its name. I’ve gone from land to world.”
ELON: TRUMP IS EFFORTLESSLY FUNNY Katie Miller: "Who's the funniest person you know in real life?" Elon: "President Trump is very funny. He's got a great sense of humor. It's naturally funny, somewhat effortless. When they asked someone if they still thought the president was fascist, Trump said 'just say yes, it's easier that way. Don't worry about it.'"
ELON: WE DON’T WANT AMERICA TO TURN INTO A COMMUNIST HELLHOLE Elon spoke bluntly about the political ripple effects of concentrated voting blocs reshaping U.S. politics in ways few are willing to talk about: “Well, let’s look at Ilhan Omar, who was literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia who are in Minnesota, which is really far from Somalia. Or Mamdani who was voted to be mayor by a majority of people who were not born in America, that’s my understanding, at least. And then California is a big-time situation. So, I don’t know. We just don’t want to turn into a communist hellhole, basically.”
ELON: THE BORDER CRISIS WAS A VOTER IMPORT PROGRAM Elon called it what he sees as the biggest ongoing scam in Washington, a mass transfer of taxpayer money to fund illegal immigration and reshape the electorate: “I guess the biggest single thing is that there are massive transfer payments going to illegal immigrants, like massive. Essentially, we’re paying people to come here from somewhere else in vast numbers, including flying them in. So it’s not like you need a border wall if you’re flying them in. Then fast-tracking them to citizenship and making them beholden to government payments and voting hard left, that’s essentially it. It’s like voter importation. If you create a gigantic money magnet and say, if anyone comes here from anywhere else, we’re going to pay you tons of money, give you lots of free stuff, come to America and get paid to do so, you’re going to get a lot of people taking up that offer.”
ELON : I'VE HAD AI NIGHTMARES MANY DAYS IN A ROW Katie Miller: "You said in the future no one's going to need to worry about money or work because AI is going to take care of it. What do you mean?" Elon: "Assuming the current trend in AI and robotics continues, AI and robots will be able to do anything that humans want them to do. Hopefully not more than that. They'll provide all the goods and services anyone could possibly want. Work will be optional. But I want to separate what I predict will happen versus what I wish would happen. If I could, I would certainly slow down AI and robotics, but I can't. It's advancing at a very rapid pace, whether I like it or not." Katie: "Is AI what keeps you up at night?" Elon: "It used to be... I've had AI nightmares many days in a row... what am I supposed to do about it?"
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