Elon Musk just called President Trump s signature legislative achievement, a disgusting abomination. Is he right? Is the billionaire bromance over? Today s episode is brought to you by Daily Wire and the Daily Wire Plus gift membership program.
00:06:22.580People who don't meet even basic requirements to avail themselves of health care and welfare.
00:06:28.700So it cuts waste and fraud in Medicaid.
00:06:30.900It cuts some ridiculous fraudulent money that was going to environmentalism and all sorts of other liberal pet projects.
00:06:37.080But all in all, as someone who has paid attention to politics closely for a long time, I think the big, beautiful bill is pretty good.
00:06:46.300I think it's totally necessary for the White House to get this through, given the razor-thin majority in the House and a better but still not massive majority in the U.S. Senate.
00:08:22.840We need to ask ourselves, what is wrong with our political order that we keep running these massive deficits?
00:08:30.380The politicians don't just do it to play a trick on us.
00:08:32.780They do it because they believe that that's what they have to do to get elected.
00:08:36.040Because as H.L. Mencken says, democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard.
00:08:41.940I think there is a deeper issue, deeper than Democrat, deeper than Republican, that explains why we run consistently massive budget deficits.
00:08:52.900All in all, I think the bill's pretty good.
00:08:54.980Now, the one little political operative thing that might be going on here with the Elon tweet that I haven't seen anyone else point out, Elon might be tweeting this now as the kind of bad cop to Trump's good cop.
00:09:08.840Notice, Elon didn't tweet this before the bill got through the House because the Republicans had like one vote they could play with in the House.
00:09:17.800It was unclear if it was going to get through.
00:09:19.480Now that we're in the Senate, it's a little more wiggle room.
00:09:22.820And because the bill is being passed through reconciliation, the Senate now can maybe make this bill a little better.
00:09:29.280Mike Lee, one of the great U.S. senators, in response to Elon's tweet, said, we got to make this bill better.
00:09:33.720So the other thing that might be going on here, it might not be just that Elon's having a temper tantrum and the bromance is over.
00:09:39.320What might be going on is that Elon's new job for the White House is to play the bad cop.
00:09:44.880So you got the good cop coming out of the actual White House and out of the Republicans in the House.
00:09:50.420And then you've got Elon playing the bad cop.
00:09:54.040I have to believe there's a little bit of that going on because of the timing, because it's after the House passed the bill, but also because Elon's a smart guy.
00:10:00.040And anybody who is surprised by this bill, who thought that this big, beautiful bill could possibly be any better on spending, given our present political circumstances, just is not paying attention to the political circumstances.
00:10:17.060But now those senators who are afraid of the Elon bucks in their primaries, maybe they'll try to tweak the bill, make it marginally better.
00:10:23.500We got to talk about a lot of these things.
00:10:25.760We got to talk about the great news coming out of Massachusetts because the Trump admin is ramping up its efficiency and productivity on deportations.
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00:12:02.380My view on it is kind of let him cook a little bit.
00:12:05.360Because, again, you have to ask yourself, rather than just saying Democrats bad or Republicans lazy or whatever, you have to ask yourself, why is it that we have gotten to a point in America where we just welcome millions and millions of illegal aliens into the country every year?
00:12:22.000How is it that we got to the place where, by conservative estimates, we have 11 to 16 million illegals living in the country?
00:12:28.160That doesn't count the anchor babies who are technically American citizens.
00:12:30.940How is it that we've gotten to this place?
00:12:35.100Yeah, Democrats are nefarious and opportunistic.
00:12:41.320Also, maybe it's because we haven't had an above replacement birth rate since 1971, and we need mass migration to prop our economy up.
00:12:49.620Maybe that's a deeper reason why we have this mass migration.
00:12:53.260Maybe it's because we no longer have a sense of national identity, because the globalists have turned us into a kind of incoherent empire, and the American right has been afraid of the N-word.
00:14:15.740The question for the White House right now is, is this going to be a signal of a massive ramp up in deportations, or is this kind of a one-off raid?
00:14:23.560And the political calculation that they're going to have to weigh in is, whether or not the White House believes that mass deportations really are a mainstream majority political issue.
00:14:36.740That's what we all said after the election.
00:14:39.240We said Trump ran on mass deportations.
00:14:42.080And I get why, because there are going to be some people who thought they wanted the mass deportations.
00:15:11.940And then when they see Abuela getting hauled off by the ICE agents, they're going to change their mind and say it's cruel and turn on Trump.
00:15:18.060And Trump's going to lose his Hispanic support.
00:15:19.720There's some sign that Trump has dipped in popularity with Hispanics, so it's unclear exactly why.
00:16:58.500Which is why at the time, I and others said that Biden was totally full of it.
00:17:04.240There was no reason to pass a new migration law.
00:17:06.040It was going to make the migration problem worse.
00:17:08.080And if Biden refused to enforce laws that were already on the books, there's no reason to believe he'd enforce a new law that was put on the books.
00:17:14.060Well, Trump totally proved that because the illegal crossings have dropped basically to zero.
00:17:20.560And the Washington Post is scratching its head.
00:17:22.600Washington Post is asking about, where is it?
00:17:25.220I have the article right here somewhere.
00:17:40.780We were seizing a lot of fentanyl that was coming originally from China, making its way through Mexico, and coming into America to murder 75,000 American citizens per year.
00:17:59.640I'll just read you the first paragraph or two.
00:18:02.200Mexico City, after years of confiscating rising amounts of fentanyl, the opioid that has fueled the most lethal drug epidemic in American history, U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling reality at the Mexican border.
00:18:18.860Just about since something changed in Washington.
00:18:22.080The phenomenon has received little notice in Washington, where the Trump administration has made fentanyl trafficking cartels a national security priority.
00:18:30.000Narcotics of all kinds are pouring across our border, said a White House statement in March, announcing stiff tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
00:18:36.100New data suggests a more complex story.
00:18:39.180The U.S. government's average monthly seizures of fentanyl at the Mexican border have dropped by more than half, from 1,700 pounds in 2024 to 746 pounds this year, according to CBP.
00:19:43.180Turns out when you elect a guy who runs on stopping illegals from bringing drugs into our country, and then he actually does that, turns out you get fewer drugs in the country.
00:20:23.180His name was Etienne-Emile Beaulieu, and he helped develop the oral drug RU486, which is more commonly known as Mifepristone.
00:20:36.300And his widow has issued this statement.
00:20:40.640His research was guided by his commitment to progress through science, his dedication to women's freedom, and his desire to enable everyone to live better and longer lives.
00:22:19.200This man, because of his dogged pursuit of this drug, this drug that is intended to kill babies in the womb.
00:22:28.660This man is responsible for the murder of an estimated, and we don't have the exact number, but an estimated conservative estimate.
00:22:37.500Five to seven million babies in the United States alone.
00:22:41.960When you add in the rest of the world, most conservative estimate possible, this man is responsible for at least tens of millions of deaths, maybe already over 100 million, and they're just getting started.
00:22:57.140The abortion pill is still rising in the total percentage of abortions that it's responsible for.
00:23:02.720The official number, I think, is 60 or 63%, but I've spoken to people who are a little more on the ground with how the abortion industry works.
00:23:12.420I'm told it's north of 70% at this point.
00:33:07.060And I'm quoting directly from the article.
00:33:09.120Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender are especially likely to consult astrology or a horoscope and tarot cards.
00:33:17.880About half of LGBT Americans, 54%, consult astrology or a horoscope at least yearly.
00:33:25.260That's roughly twice the share among U.S. adults overall, which is 28%.
00:33:28.460And LGBT women are more likely than LGBT men to consult astrology at least yearly, 63%.
00:33:36.86063% of lesbians consult astrology versus 40% of gay men.
00:33:45.640It's still much higher than the national average.
00:33:48.900And certainly than the national average of men.
00:33:50.78033% of LGBT adults say they consult tarot cards, making them three times as likely as U.S. adults overall to say this.
00:33:59.24021% of LGBT Americans say that when they make a major life decision, they rely at least a little on what they've learned from astrology or a horoscope.
00:34:07.460That's more than one in five LGBT LMNOP people.
00:34:11.140When they're making a major life decision, they go to the tarot cards or a fortune teller.
00:34:17.660While there is limited academic research on this topic, media publications focused on LGBTQ issues have described the prevalence of new age practices in the LGBTQ plus community.
00:34:28.760The reason is the LGBT LMNOP people eschew traditional religion because traditional religion, I'm not even just talking about Christianity, but Islam, Judaism, really anything that could even be remotely described as a traditional religion in the United States, says no-no on the LGBT stuff.
00:34:56.180It says that that is contrary to the moral order.
00:34:58.760So, people who embrace this identity, not just people who have a same-sex attraction, not just people who have done some weird stuff or whatever, but I'm saying people who put on the armor and identity of LGBTism, they are not participating in traditional religion.
00:35:17.420And when you eschew traditional religion, you become superstitious.
00:35:22.380This is a big lesson that people have not understood for the past 25 years, but they should figure it out now because people have understood it for most of history.
00:35:32.400The last 25 years, since the new atheists at least, we've been told that religious people are superstitious, and in order to stop being superstitious, you need to give up religion, and then you can be reasonable.
00:37:59.160There's a priest or a layperson, I don't remember which, that said that today, used to be 20 years ago, you'd have to convince people not to be atheists.
00:38:06.100The evangelists would go out and say, don't be atheist, be Christian.
00:38:09.100Today, you don't need to convince people not to be atheists.
00:38:11.980You need to convince them not to get involved in the occult, in New Age, in all the weird pseudo-religions.
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00:39:13.500I guess they would say, because in principle, a lesbian can get pregnant.
00:39:16.600But a lesbian, as a general matter, will not get pregnant.
00:39:23.120So why, yeah, isn't, if the rule is, well, if you can't get pregnant, then you don't have an opinion on it.
00:39:29.020Well, if a lesbian, you know, in as much as she is a lesbian, can't get pregnant, well, why does she get to have an opinion?
00:39:36.020I want to have an opinion about abortion.
00:39:37.340Speaking of religion, there is a modern Protestant worship music composer named Brandon Lake.
00:39:46.320Now, you know me, I'm a macro-snapping papist, so I've got a lot of Protestant friends, obviously, but I'm not totally familiar with what is called modern worship music.
00:39:56.500In fact, even the Catholic Church has a lot of this kind of modern worship music where it's like, you know, hey, hey, girl, everybody, I just want to pray.
00:40:09.040And it's all really sappy and like, it ain't my thing, let's put it that way.
00:40:13.060Well, anyway, one of the most prominent composers of this kind of music has now come up with the audacious claim that they need to make the modern worship music even less about God.
00:40:28.240I think, last thing I'll say is like, I'd love to see more worship sets, more churches, like, kind of keep Bubba in mind.