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SECTION 21
HOW ELON MUSK IS ONLY AN
UNSUCCESSFUL BUREAUCRAT
Version 1 ... February 2025

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give you a a slap on the wrist or worse because you're not and there's enormous
support in the public sector for that Americans have a very hard time grasping
how different this is here in the United States just by

How Elon Musk is Only an Unsuccessful Bureaucrat

2:43:24
comparison the presumption is
that government is a bureaucracy full of unnecessary people
the fat so we economic fat
so Mr Trump gets a lot of support
for nominating the head of a private bureaucracy Mr musk to clean out the
public bureaucracy as if him being the proprietor of another bureaucracy didn't

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disqualify him what why what are you doing what are you doing this man has an
enormous bureaucracy that was he has a business that spans the whole world or
multiple businesses that Spann the whole world he's got a complicated overlapping
mess of a the bureaucracy like all bureaucracy but no no no no no instead
the mentality is the private bureaucracy is efficient lean effective
it's always the public bureaucracy that isn't though that's a completely
different way of thinking about and it translates into different little
decisions along the way you know made in this office in Idaho and that office in Vermont and because of this private
profit a private public notion

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remarkable I think it it it enabled Xi Jinping the current leader in
China to realize that the efforts of the United States to constrict and constrain
China Focus as they were on among other things artificial
intelligence meant that in order to have a
chance China could mobilize its
resources in a way that Europe could not Europe didn't have the hybrid
economic systems way too much private and they did have National Unity
too much tension among the countries of the EU so they could not mobilize not
across the public private boundary not across the national boundary so they

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couldn't and they didn't but the Chinese who had less of some kinds of
resources than Europe if you take Europe as a total they
could and then not going to change this because it's working that's why
they are able now to compete in AI That's what the importance of the deep sea explosion was it wasn't the details
of one program versus another these are learning they call learning modules what this is about is a sign
which is by the way a number of American commentary made this and they're right they compared it to 1957
and because I'm old enough I was Al lar that I remember it
1957 was when Russia Soviet Union then sent up a man in space a

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Sputnik uh Yuri Gagarin I remember the name of the Russian astronaut who was
there and America went crazy because the whole notion that we
were number one meant that we Americans would be the first in space and here
were not just another country that would have been bad enough but the bad country had done it you
know this is comparable it's a sign that a country we thought was far behind us
isn't and I think you've seen a kind of Quasi hysteria already in Washington as
the whole establishment reinforces itself no stop even though
the war in Ukraine is when Russia we really should be focused on
China my guess I don't know of course but my guess that if Mr

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Trump delivers on his promise to end the war in
Ukraine he will do so in the name of focus ing on the much greater danger
represented by China the truth of it is the Chinese at
this point are not our problem because they
don't need all they want is free trade all they want is to be allowed to do in the
future who what they've done in the past it's the United States that has to have a change because it's terrified by the
growth that the Chinese have achieved and that they look likely to continue
and therefore they have to be stopped so what Americans cannot understand because
they don't want to face it is that it's not that the Chinese are aggressive it's really the reverse it's

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the United States that's aggressive because it needs to stop what's going on
the Chinese don't for the Chinese let's go you know
they we know how to go we know how to beat you we know how to grow we do it
better than you do so just let us and the United States says we won't we're
going to stop you we going to slow you and it's almost as naked as that if you
look at the press these days and you know it's a question of
whether the Americans have the means I don't think they do and have the determination they
may have that uh to stay with this policy I like to remind them that after
Britain tried twice to punish the United States for becoming

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independent Revolutionary War war of 1812 they gave up and they basically
worked out a deal Americans would leave them alone in the rest of the world do their British Empire and the British
would respect that the United States now had an Empire called the R Doctrine you
can take this Western Hemisphere we're taking everything else and on that basis
we can all live happily together and they didn't they didn't go to war against each other since that time okay
so why not the United States sit down with China and do more or less the same
I don't understand why that isn't talked
about and be I don't think that's because it isn't enough option I think it is and I think Americans somewhere
know that it is but for the moment they're all excited that they may have the ability just to blow the Chinese
away the way the Russians went away and I think that's a mistake but that's
where we sit we're definitely going to come back to China because we need to

Why Trump Thinks We Should Conquer Greenland

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end this conversation talking about the ultimate fate of the United States and China is of course going to play a huge
role in that but there are still those those two rhetorical issues that I wanted to talk about that we haven't
gotten to yet and I think the first one that you mentioned in our conversation is Greenland and whether we need to take
it uh from Denmark or so what is the the context here why would Trump I mean