00:16:37.120So SpaceX at the time was a brand new company.
00:16:41.220And the innovation, like when I was saying the first trillionaire would be made in space, I wasn't necessarily thinking Elon Musk.
00:16:47.720I wasn't necessarily thinking Jeff Bezos.
00:16:49.720Actually, the comment I made, which is the incentive to become a trillionaire is going to cause people to invest a lot and innovate. That's exactly what happened over the last decade. You've had multiple, the two biggest have been Musk and Bezos, but you've also got Robert Bigelow. You've got others who've invested and innovated in space because, look, the upsides, if you look at SpaceX, you've got a couple of drivers of it.
00:17:18.460One is Starlink, and more than 90% of the satellites that are in orbit right now, SpaceX put up there.
00:17:24.440I mean, that's a staggering statistic, and Starlink is now giving internet connectivity all over the world.
00:17:29.700And like the most remote wilderness in Africa, you can get Starlink.
00:17:33.860That's an innovation that has improved the lives of millions.
00:30:01.660Which, which I thought was, was quite good.
00:30:03.720And that, look, that's how you innovate with capitalism. You create a solution. And what is the reaction of the left? It is envy. And we've heard Bernie Sanders, we've heard Elizabeth Warren. I want you to listen to Jimmy Kimmel to really embody the leftist envy and contempt. Give a listen.
00:30:24.520first ever trillionaire in the history of the world. This man, our first trillionaire,
00:30:29.140the richest man in the world, is also one of the weirdest people we've ever seen on this planet.0.90
00:30:33.740This obscenely wealthy weirdo has the ability and means to blow up the moon if he chooses,
00:30:38.620and also to put a lot of other people's money in his pockets.0.71
00:30:41.840You listen to that, just the disdain there. It is a coordinated effort, which goes back to my
00:30:48.500final question, Senator, and I'll make a prediction here. I believe that the Democratic
00:30:53.460Party, if they gain power again in the House, Senate, certainly the White House, they will
00:30:59.560go after Elon Musk and every one of his companies and every one of his government contracts
00:31:05.100because of what he did with Doge and the fact that he was an ally of President Trump, even
00:31:10.000though they've had their own little fights, they will move to destroy him and make sure
00:31:16.540that there's no part of our U.S. government that uses anything that he touches.
00:31:20.280You are absolutely right. And understand, these are not the Marxists of the sit-in-a-faculty-lounge-and-muse abstract theories. These are the Marxists of the Stalinist kind, of the kind that go and crush their enemies.
00:31:34.520If the left takes over, if AOC or Gavin Newsom or some other leftist becomes president, you will see every single federal government agency weaponized and targeting Elon Musk.
00:31:48.660You will see them denying him licenses to launch satellites, denying him canceling his contracts, the EPA shutting down his launches, Tesla being investigated by OSHA, by the IRS.
00:32:00.580Elon personally, they will make it their mission. This cannot stand is what Bernie said. They want
00:32:08.320to destroy him for daring to demonstrate that free enterprise works. And I want you to think
00:32:15.640back again to what Jimmy Kimmel said, which is he makes obscene amounts of money by getting other
00:32:23.700people's money. And let me just ask a very simple question, Jimmy. How? How does he get other
00:32:30.740people's money? And he does it one of two ways. One, he does it by running a business that's very
00:32:35.620profitable. So he builds a car people really like, and they decide, I like this car better than all
00:32:41.540the other cars, and it's really good, and it's fast, and it's super environmentally clean,
00:32:46.320and it looks cool, and it's self-driving, so I want to buy it. So he produces a product people
00:32:53.360really like and want, which, by the way, is also much, much better for the environment which you0.97
00:32:58.660hypocrites claim to care about. But there's a second way. How did he make so much money this0.97
00:33:03.260week? Well, he sold 550 million shares of stock. And you know what unified every single person
00:33:10.380who bought that stock? They all wanted to make money. They did so voluntarily. Nobody forced
00:33:16.540them. 550 million decisions of people who said, I would like to purchase at least a share of
00:33:24.560SpaceX. I want to buy that. And by the way, it's not just gazillionaires. It's lots of moms and
00:33:32.060pops, lots of ordinary people. And you know what? You and I, we probably don't know this, but you
00:33:37.920and I are both probably, and most of our listeners are probably SpaceX stockholders too, because
00:33:43.200many of the purchasers were pension funds 401k so if you're in a widely diversified mutual fund
00:33:50.120which most of my retirement savings are in mutual funds yeah many of them bought spacex as part of
00:33:55.800their portfolio so so the people who purchased he is literally making americans rich all across the
00:34:03.320country and if you're really good at that you make a bunch of money too leftists hate that they want
00:34:09.580to destroy you. And they also want to take the money. They want government in charge of it. And
00:34:13.840they want the only way you can make money is for government to give you a check every month.
00:34:17.400So you got to go vote to reelect the Marxists and keep them in power. I want to say to Elon Musk,
00:34:22.720Gwen Shotwell, to everyone at SpaceX, congratulations. This was an historic week.
00:34:29.120God bless capitalism. God bless liberty. No doubt about it. Don't forget, we do a show
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