Elon Musk was once celebrated by pop culture, but now he s an enemy to an enemy. In the novel, "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand paints a picture of what happens when a government is built on envy and resentment and collectivism.
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00:02:01.000There's plenty of things that are goofy about the book.
00:02:04.000The overindulgence in the material and the flesh, the lack of a belief in the eternal and the divine, the worship of, let's just say, immediate gratification.
00:02:14.000However... Despite the fact that we do not agree with all of her views, she was an atheist after all, and a much more libertarian fundamentalist than we are.
00:02:23.000She was a supremely gifted writer and understood the left-wing mind better than almost any other author of the last 100 years.
00:02:33.000In the book Atlas Shrugged, it's a dystopian novel, and it paints a picture of what happens when a government is built on envy and resentment and collectivism.
00:02:44.000In the book, Atlas Shrugged, it talks about what happens when there's Birdison laws and regulations, and when you're able to find a singular person that you can pin all of your problems against.
00:02:57.000The best characters in Rand's books are actually the villains.
00:03:01.000They are the perfect image of left-wing bureaucrats, academics, and parasites.
00:03:06.000People who can't build, but they try to gain mastery over those who do.
00:03:12.000In the book Atlas Shrugged, there is a quiet character who really does not emerge up until about two-thirds of the way through.
00:03:19.000And that is a guy by the name of John Galt.
00:05:17.000From driverless cars to artificial intelligence to Neuralink to the Boring Company to SpaceX.
00:05:24.000And I will go to college campuses and I will have these kids who hate Elon Musk, who have never paid rent, let alone built a company, have the audacity and the brazen attitude to attack Elon.
00:07:35.000What we are seeing is the beginning of the tension of what Ayn Rand predicted because she understood the psychology of resentment, envy, and greed.
00:07:46.000And Elon Musk is not greedy whatsoever.
00:07:49.000He's the one dedicating his time and his treasure back to the country.
00:07:52.000But if you want to know where the left is going next, this is a little bit of an indicator, a little bit of a harbinger of things to come.
00:08:01.000And what is the Democrat strategy for elections this year?
00:08:42.000I think everything's just going to be fine, but you must always keep your eyes on the horizon of what is coming next.
00:08:48.000And that, my friends, is a very serious crowd.
00:08:51.000That did not just come out ex nihilo, though.
00:08:53.000If the Democrats would have been smart in 2024, that's the election they would have run.
00:08:58.000But instead they ran Kamala Harris, and we thank them greatly for that contribution to the Republic.
00:09:05.000The Democrat base and the Democrat party is going to be one that will be based on the message of We're going to take from the person who lands rockets from space.
00:09:15.000We're going to take from the person who rescues the astronauts.
00:09:19.000We are going to take from the people that make the world spin.
00:09:24.000And in the book Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand spoke about how society was falling apart without the innovator, without the entrepreneur.
00:09:35.000These are the risk takers, the pioneers, and the innovators.
00:09:38.000And if you are suffering out there right now, let me tell you, you are not suffering just because Elon Musk is wealthy.
00:09:46.000This is pure spite that is driving the American left.
00:09:51.000They want to bankrupt Tesla, one of the only successful manufacturing enterprises started in the last half century in America.
00:09:59.000These are people that could never build something themselves.
00:10:01.000Put up AOC and Bernie Sanders on screen.
00:10:04.000You can't even say that they've built beautiful, functioning families.
00:10:08.000All that they have been able to build is foment a mob to go try and storm the Bastille to take what other people have earned.
00:10:20.000And as we try to anticipate what is coming next, be ready because the communists are ready to storm the gate.
00:10:25.000They want to take the Bastille and the Bolsheviks are ascendant in the Democrat Party.
00:13:01.000Now, I'm very pro-life, you know that, and you don't have to even agree with my abortion stances in this clip.
00:13:07.000But what is important is to look into the mentality and into the window of the tenacity of your average left-leaning, liberal, Democrat activist on campus.
00:15:47.000Are you going to tell me that I might have to drop out of college?
00:15:51.000Essentially, I don't want to take any responsibility for my actions.
00:15:55.000And again, it's not even about the abortion thing.
00:15:57.000It's actually much more psychologically interesting and deeper than that.
00:16:00.000That's just a manifestation of a deeper political problem.
00:16:04.000Which is that I don't want to have to grow up.
00:16:09.000I want to remain in charge of everything all the time and do what feels good, not what I ought to do.
00:16:17.000You see, men are gravitating towards this idea of duty.
00:16:21.000Young ladies are gravitating towards this idea of license and licentiousness.
00:16:26.000And in that video, I sensed emptiness in her, and I do have compassion for her.
00:16:31.000And that is why young women increasingly are incredibly suicidal, incredibly depressed, incredibly drug-addicted, far more likely to be on antidepressants, because that leads you into a very sad, vacuous existence.
00:16:48.000Liberalism, as its furthest extrapolation, is a cultural suicide cult.
00:16:56.000With President Trump making massive strides in his first month in office, alone to deliver on campaign promises to make America great again, it's clear his administration is committed to driving down costs and unleashing prosperity across our country.
00:17:09.000But Big Pharma is standing in the way.
00:17:11.000They've raised prices on over 575 brand-name drugs in January alone, blocked competition, and spent millions pushing overpriced meds on hardworking Americans.
00:17:21.000Now they're pressuring Congress To implement mandates that will undermine the one real check against drug companies and ban the very market-based incentives that help employers and families save on prescriptions and healthcare costs.
00:17:34.000Even worse, Big Pharma wants to strip American employers of the freedom to choose health benefits that work best for them.
00:17:41.000Their proposals could hand Big Pharma a $32 billion money grab at the expense of American employers and families.
00:17:47.000Conservatives for lower healthcare costs warns that Big Pharma isn't on our side.
00:17:51.000They fought against solutions to lower drug prices during Trump's first term, opposed Bobby Kennedy's nomination to HHS to make America healthy again, and now they want even more government control over the private healthcare market, interfering with President Trump's promise to cut prescription drug costs.
00:18:06.000Big Pharma is no friend of the American people.
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00:18:29.000Senator, what do you make of this rise of left-wing terrorism targeted at Tesla and Elon Musk?
00:18:36.000My fear, Senator, and I hope I'm wrong, and let's stay in prayer that I'm wrong, that someone is going to get shot the same way that Steve Scalise got shot and, God forbid, killed.
00:18:46.000The left is creating a pressure cooker with so many of their rank and file paramilitary troops that very well might result in one of us getting shot or killed.
00:19:14.000They understand that people understand that there is a risk of bodily harm or even death in these kinds of circumstances, and that's designed to induce fear.
00:19:24.000One of the many problems with this is that these folks apparently feel at liberty to do this.
00:19:28.000They've been trained by the radical left to think that there will be no consequence to them for doing this, that they'll be applauded, that they'll be rewarded.
00:19:37.000This isn't going to end well for them, and it's not going to end well for the country.
00:19:42.000One of the things that is missing in all of this, we haven't seen politicians on the left, elected officeholders in the Democratic Party, in any significant numbers coming out and saying, stop this madness.
00:20:19.000Jimmy Kimmel, who's supposed to be a funny man, he read on a script, you know, Stop Burning Teslas, but obviously did it as a joke and did it as a way to try to, of course, encourage his audience to burn more Teslas, as he did it with a little bit of a smirk.
00:20:33.000I'm trying to find the piece of tape here.
00:21:10.000It shouldn't be allowed on public airwaves.
00:21:14.000And I'm frankly stunned that his network hasn't called him out on it, hasn't apologized, hasn't taken some action against him for doing this.
00:21:25.000Regardless of what your political views are as an American, you should be able to look at this objectively and say, you know, violence and acts of vandalism aren't a good thing.
00:21:37.000And if you're going to comment on that, either say something that's actually funny, which this wasn't, or ideally pair it with something suggesting that people not do it.
00:21:50.000And yet Disney is not going to have a single advertiser drop, not a single advertiser say, you know, I don't know, that might go a little bit too far.
00:24:05.000But what's doubly weird and concerning is that if he's going to bring up Tesla at all, why wouldn't he take that opportunity to say, by the way, regardless of whether you want to celebrate when Tesla's stock price goes down, knock it off with the violence.
00:24:22.000And I fear what it means for the future of our country.
00:24:27.000And Democrats should fear what that means for the future of the Democratic Party.
00:24:30.000So I now want your thoughts here, Senator, on the nationwide injunction crisis.
00:24:35.000Is there anything Congress will do to slow down this disturbing trend?
00:24:40.000Look, there are things that can be done.
00:24:43.000I'll be introducing legislation next week that would require a separate procedure to be followed for this type of injunction.
00:24:51.000When I mean this type of injunction, I mean a type of injunction that has nationwide applicability.
00:24:56.000Within the U.S. government and is focused on a presidential policy decision, those should have to go, rather than being considered by a single federal district judge, they should have to go before a three-judge district court panel.
00:25:14.000This is a procedure that's utilized in some limited cases, most of them dealing with the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives or the drawing of federal legislative boundaries.
00:25:26.000But we could add this to the list, and that's what my legislation would do, make it infinitely more difficult to game the system, to judge shop, to file the case in a place that suggests from the outset you'll get a very favorable audience from a leftist judge.
00:25:43.000And then, just as importantly, anytime you've got a three-judge district court panel, you've got an immediate automatic appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, not the opportunity to seek certiorari.
00:25:55.000Or discretionary review from the Supreme Court, which is how it usually works there, but rather a direct appeal, meaning the Supreme Court has to review it, or if it chooses not to, it's still setting precedent.
00:26:07.000This would expedite the process, diminish the amount of time that these leftist activist judges could tie up the Trump administration in these legal proceedings.
00:26:21.000And it would also dramatically impair the ability of the plaintiffs to judge Shep so as to rig the system in their favor.
00:26:30.000So, in closing here, Senator, it seems as if that this new pattern of nationwide injunctions is the norm, not the exception.
00:26:41.000The Supreme Court has to meet and they have to try to reconcile this for the good of the country and the republic.
00:26:50.000suppose the question I have here is, as someone yourself who really cares about the law and the application, Yeah, this is maybe roughly analogous to the fact that there are circumstances in which...
00:27:19.000A direct order from someone in your chain of command at the military isn't something that you follow.
00:27:24.000I don't know that the parallel works exactly, but yeah, there are theoretical limits beyond which a chief executive might deem it appropriate not to follow something.
00:27:36.000It's got to be a matter of individual discretion.
00:27:39.000And the circumstance that we saw last week, the thing that the court was trying to stop had already happened, that was already underway.
00:27:48.000So that's a different set of circumstances than what you were describing.
00:27:52.000Senator, thank you so much for your leadership.
00:32:52.000Going back 30 years, you can see neither party has ever come anywhere near as close to this.
00:32:57.000It's fallen off a cliff that number has for Democrats since the election.
00:33:02.000Building a political party around toxic femininity and shrill hall monitor enforcement turns out to be broadly very unpopular with the American people.
00:33:16.000The Democrat Party seems uninterested in adjusting itself, uninterested in modernizing.