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Ep. 2163 - The Left’s ASSAULT On Musk Continues…

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

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The Left-wing assault on Elon Musk grows day by day; President Trump signs an executive order aimed at abolishing the Department of Education; and Democrats’ internecine war continues. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2163 - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - DailyWire+: We’re leading the charge again and launching a full-scale push for justice. Go to https://PardonDerek.com right now and sign the petition. Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors:Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that searches the internet to deliver fast, unbiased, high-quality answers, with sources and in-line citations. Ask Perplexity anything here: https://pplx.ai/benshapiro Ramp - Get $250 when you join Ramp. Go to https://ramp.com/SHAPIRO International Fellowship of Christians and Jews - Bring comfort and relief to Israel and her people by donating at https://BenForTheFellowship.org LiveGood Supplements - Save an additional 10% off your first order on TOP of the already lowest prices. Just go to https://LiveGood.com/BEN - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB

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Chapter 1: Why is the left targeting Elon Musk?

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Folks, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer just went on national TV bragging that he has put hundreds of progressive judges on the bench and said he's proud they are ruling against Trump time after time. If you actually care about truth, sanity, and reality, it is time to become a Daily Wire Plus member. Winning the election, it turns out, was not enough. The fight for our values...

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continues every single day. That's why we need you to become a Daily Wire Plus member. You get my show ad-free, plus exclusive content you won't find anywhere else. Stream all our top-rated hosts on desktop, mobile, and TV. Join the fight today at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Well, speaking of the left-wing assault on basic human values, the assault on Elon Musk's Tesla continues.

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Now, I will say, it's pretty incredible what we're watching right now. There have been across American history a number of very large industrialists, bankers, innovators who have worked hand in glove with the American government when called upon to do so.

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In the early 20th century, there were bankers who worked with the federal government in order to essentially bail the United States government out of serious debt problems. During World War II, obviously, industrialists worked with the FDR administration in order to rev up the American war machine. Nothing about what Elon Musk is doing is particularly unprecedented.

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What is unprecedented is the idea that it's good for the country if his company is taken down. The hatred of President Trump is so strong and President Trump has been so invulnerable to that hatred that pretty much all the hatred of the left has now turned to Musk. It's kind of a fascinating thing.

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When you talk to people on the left right now, sure, they hate Trump, but they're kind of tired of hating Trump. They got bored with it. The fact is that they hated Trump 10 years ago. They hate Trump today. Elon Musk is the new hot thing to hate.

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And because Elon Musk has dedicated himself to Doge, the Department of Governmental Efficiency, because he is going through department by department and looking for possible waste, fraud and abuse because he's so voluble. Because he's so rich, specifically because of all that, he has become persona non grata, enemy number one.

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And that means that the left is now excusing actual acts of violence against, for example, Tesla dealerships. There are entire sites that have been set up to dox Tesla owners, according to the UK Independent.

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As protests against Doge had Elon Musk spread across the country, a website called DogeQuest has reportedly published the personal details of Tesla owners leading to concerns about privacy and safety. The site reveals the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla owners on an interactive map and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor.

Chapter 2: What are the recent attacks on Tesla and its implications?

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It says that it should close, but it doesn't close it because Trump doesn't have the power to do that. The actual text of the executive order says, quote, Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them. Today, American reading and math scores are near historical lows.

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This year's National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that 70 percent of eighth graders were below proficient in reading and 72 percent were below proficient in math. The federal education bureaucracy is not working. Closure of the Department of Education would drastically improve program implementation in higher education.

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The Department of Education currently manages a student loan debt portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion. This means the federal student aid program is roughly the size of one of the nation's largest banks, Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees. The Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid. The Department of Education is not a bank.

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