Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
“Elon Musk tells biographer Walter Isaacson in a new podcast interview that the fizzled DOGE experiment, which the SpaceX and Tesla CEO once headed, proved there’s ‘no way we were gonna solve the deficit from within the government,'” Axios reports.
Said Musk: “The only way we’re going to solve the national debt is with AI and robots. We’re not gonna solve it by trying to save our way there.”
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