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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Today on the show, Elon Musk and President Trump go at it over the big, beautiful bill. Greta Thunberg, remember her, takes a three-hour USS Minnow tour to Gaza. Boys are beating girls again at California track meets. And the Trump White House has found a new and hilarious way to celebrate Pride Month. Yes, it's June. But first, Father's Day is coming. Skip the socks, skip the grill tools.
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Go to dailywireplus.com, use code DAD40, and save 40% now. Alrighty, folks. So the big, beautiful bill is reaching fruition in the Senate. What will the final form look like? We don't actually know at this point, a lot of negotiations happening inside the Republican Senate caucus.
And of course, you have people who are fiscal hawks like Senator Ron Johnson, who's been a guest on the show, talking about the shortcomings of the big, beautiful bill in terms of spending. Obviously, this bill maintains Biden levels of spending. It does not, in fact, cut back to 2019 pre-pandemic levels of spending.
And then you have people inside the Republican caucus, like Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri, who thinks the bill actually goes too far in cutting spending. The House bill goes too far by putting work requirements on Medicaid, for example. So as always, you have a fractious Republican caucus. And the question is, what gets through?
What's emerging right now inside the Republican Party is a fight between the ideal and the pragmatic. And neither side is actually wrong in this particular fight. So this has now boiled down to a fight between President Trump and Elon Musk. So Elon, of course, recently left the administration.
He had reached the end of the period of time in which he was capable of holding that office without some form of congressional approval. Over the course of the last couple of days, he put out a tweet saying, quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it.
You know you did wrong. You know it. So that is open war on the so-called big, beautiful bill. Meanwhile, the administration, of course, is pushing forward the big, beautiful bill. So there's been some speculation about what caused Elon Musk to lose it on the so-called big, beautiful bill. That speculation was handed off to Axios by presumably some members of the administration.
According to Axios, Musk and Trump remain friends and allies. Two people in frequent communication with both told Axios that they said Trump was somewhat irked by Musk's social media sabotage. The sources familiar with the Trump-Musk relationship say there appeared to be four inflection points that led to his caustic attack on President Trump's bill.
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Chapter 2: What are the key points of the Big, Beautiful Bill?
The problem is the federal government is not, in fact, a private company. It does not work that way. And you can't apply the same actual calculation and how to change it that you would to a privately held company. It just does not work that way. The way that the federal government actually works is that you have to figure out if there is enough consensus to do a big thing.
Right now, Republicans have a consensus to do a big thing with taxes, which is maintain the current tax rate. And they have the consensus to make some relatively small cuts with regard to the future of Medicaid growth. And again, let's be clear about this. This is not a cut to Medicaid. It is a cut to future Medicaid growth. That is what the support is there for.
And if politics is the art of the possible, then what is President Trump supposed to do? He can't just magic this thing into existence. And this is one of the great lies about politics generally. Politicians will always tell you they can magic things into existence. No politician can. We have a system, for better or for worse. In many cases, for better.
When it comes to the inability of the American people to actually take debt seriously, certainly for worse. The short-term thinking of the American people will end up biting us directly in the butt when it comes to the national debt. Now, remember, a little bit later on in the show, I'm going to get to Greta Thunberg going to the Gaza Strip. I know, like the absurdity is, it truly is quite real.
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Chapter 3: Why is Elon Musk critical of the Big, Beautiful Bill?
But yeah, they covered it up because a man was beating up the ladies at the Olympics. Speaking of which. California continues to push forward the absurdity of boys racing against girls while pretending to be girls. According to SoapCentral.com, A.B.
Hernandez, a transgender high school athlete, has been making waves on social media after winning two events, including the high jump and triple jump at the California State Track and Field Championships as per KCRA. Hernandez is 16 years old and from Jurupa Valley, California, and her recent participation under the new rule change has caused nationwide controversy. He, you mean his participation.
As part of the new rule by the California Interscholastic Federation, if a trans athlete earns a top position, the next highest ranking cisgender athlete can also share the placement and also receive a medal as per the Guardian.
Yeah, but if you put the dude at the top of the podium and then you're like, yeah, but we'll put like an extra girl at the bottom of the podium so that she can be like number four and three are kind of tied. How does that make the girls feel any better? They're still standing there below a boy at the top of the podium.
Hernandez won first place in the high jump where she, he cleared five, seven, five feet, seven inches without any failed attempts. He shared first place with two other athletes, Jalene Wetland and Leilani LaRue. He also won first place in the triple jump and received a gold medal in second place in the long jump. The whole thing is unbelievably silly.
Of course, there was a plane that was flown over the track and field state championship that read no boys in girls sports. The Independent Council on Women's Sports and Women Are Real, which is Riley Gaines' group, were the two groups that took credit for flying the banner during the event. And good for them. Because the American people are not in favor of this.
It is not only silly, it is insulting to women and girls and harms girls when they have to compete against boys. Well, some businesses have been getting the notice that Americans are no longer on board for this sort of social radicalism. Others have not. One of the groups that has not, sadly, is MLB, Major League Baseball. 29 of MLB's 30 teams are celebrating Pride Month.
They're coming to literally every Major League ballpark, apparently. Not sure why any of that is necessary. The Rangers are the only MLB team that has never waded into the LGBT messaging during Pride Month, according to the Daily Wire.
In response to questions about skipping Pride Month events, the team said last year, quote, our longstanding commitment remains the same, to make everyone feel welcome and included in Rangers baseball, in our ballpark at every game, and in all we do for both our fans and our employees.
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