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Welcome, USAUSA say all right. Wow, I love it this.
It's an it's an honour to be here talking to everyone here
and everyone out there. So yeah, I'm, I'm before, before
I what, what I actually, what I want to emphasize before
anything else is, is as the the sign says, vote early and and
vote, vote now. So you can, you can actually, I
looked at the numbers as of yesterday, there's still 40,000
absentee ballots that have been mailed out just in the
surrounding counties, just just in the, in the nearby area that
have not been that, that have not been handed in.
So if you have any friends, family or anyone you know who
has an absentee ballot, just hound them relentlessly until
they hand it in, because if they don't hand it in, then the vote
doesn't count. It's very straightforward.
So, yeah, there's a, there are 40,000 absentee ballots that,
that really need to be handed in just in this area.
So please, you know, talk to friends and family.
Don't get a vote. The other thing is that anyone
in Pennsylvania can go to the, the county office on Monday and
Tuesday and request a ballot and immediately they're handed in.
So I, I, I think probably a lot of people are not aware that you
can actually do this. You don't even need to mail it.
It's like, it's kind of weird because it's like cold and
absentee ballot, but you're like right there, totally not absent.
Can I have an absentee ballot? But you're here, yes, as as
strange as that sounds, you can literally go in, request an
absentee ballot and even though you're right there, you can hand
it in and you did this morning great.
Like like and, and I think some maybe some, some county offices
are, are open on the weekend, but they're definitely open on
Monday and Tuesday. And then to to add another
strange twist, they close on Wednesday.
So they're like now what? So you have until just Monday
and Tuesday in Pennsylvania to go into the county office,
request a ballot and you can, you can hand it in right there.
It doesn't even need to go even go in the mail or anything.
And that's the best way to do it.
But you, you can use the mail, but you can just do it right in
person and then and then, then on, for some reason on
Wednesday, you cannot do it anymore until November 5th.
So that's does high urgency for Monday and Tuesday.
Big deal. So, and and this this is, you
know, this is an election that I think, frankly is, is a a fork
in the road of, of destiny. You know, it really is.
So, you know, it's yeah, it's it's, it's, it's essential.
So, you know, it's like we we need safe cities, secure
borders, you know, sensible spending, I mean, basic stuff,
you know, and and we, we need to get rid of like the the well,
yeah. But I mean, it's like, I always
feel like it's bad to like attack Kamala because it's just
a puppet, you know? But it's just, you know, it's
just the machine. It's just like this this big
government machine and there's a puppet.
And it's like, no point in being like attacking a puppet.
It's just, you know, it's it's like I was like, you know, I
made a joke that was sort of misconstrued that it was like,
nobody even bought this to try to kill Kamala.
That's pointless. Why?
Let's get another puppet. So everyone does.
Nobody even bothers. Nobody's even.
Nobody's even tried to kill Biden.
It's like, doesn't that seem odd?
They're trying to kill Trump twice.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, listen, if if somebody's
already dead, what's the point to try to kill him?
So, you know, he's 1 foot and four toes in the grave.
I mean, I saw a weekend at Bernie's and honestly, the
corpse had more life than Biden. Like for sure, actually.
So you know who is even running the country?
Like like, like, like who's in charge?
It's confusing. It's, you know, Trump, sure he
will be hopefully, but I just sort of wonder like clearly
Biden is an accomplice mantis. So who is actually in charge?
The machine? I I think it's just it's just
like the big government machine basically is, is what's in
charge. It's but it's bizarre, you know?
So, yeah, I mean, obviously with, with Trump, the the great
thing is that we, we have a real individual who is not beholden
to anyone. And that's what scares the
machine. And that's why the machine's
trying to kill him. Yeah.
So, so, yeah. Wild times, man, Wild times.
I mean, I I've had quite a few friends call me and say have you
uni shoes should definitely improve your security.
I'm like, that's probably a good idea.
I'm like, they're like, they're definitely going to try to kill
you. I'm like, yeah, that's a good
chance though. They might try to do that.
Yeah. So yeah, exactly.
If they shoot, they better not miss.
So I'll find out who was behind him, not just who the gunman
was. So, but it, it, it is, it is
crazy to think that, you know, we have a presidential candidate
who that they've tried to kill twice in in recent months and
they try to get him, you know, with low fare 66 ways to Sunday
to try to prevent people from actually voting in a Democratic
way. It's it's outrageous really.
What are they, you know, what are they afraid of?
So, yeah, I think it's it's kind of the truth.
And I'd certainly encourage people, if people haven't seen
the the conversation between Joe Rogan and Donald Trump, that was
that was super cool. I mean, I think, I think for,
for a lot of people, it's like, you know, how do you know, how
do you understand somebody like, and, and what they're about, You
know, like the, the, the sort of far left press has been going on
and on about how like Trump is like Hitler, like Mussolini and
Stalin combined. And you roll them all into one
and he's somehow worse than all three of them combined.
These are people who have killed 10s of millions of people.
And like, something's wrong with the press guys.
You know, something is wrong with the press.
Journalism is dead. Like what the heck is going on?
It's bizarre. Yeah, actually, exactly.
It's like, I mean, I do, I do. I do think like that, that old
school journalism, I call it the legacy media because it is kind
of legacy media because it is. It is from a time when in order
to learn any news, you had to aggregate the news to some
central publication. And then then some editor would
decide what people should hear. And then they'd print the
newspaper with like a lot of a lot of paper, literally, and
then distribute that paper. And that's how you learn things.
But you obviously don't need that anymore.
You've got the Internet. So anyone can learn anything at
any time. Yeah, that's why X is the
future. It's, it's where it's citizen
journalism, where you hear from the people.
It's by the people for the people.
That's what it's all about. I think this is, this is a
super, super big deal and it's, and it's absolutely fundamental
and transformative that the people actually get to decide
the news and the, and, and what the narrative and what matters.
And, and that the, the legacy media is basically, you know,
controlled by a handful of editors in chief.
That's it that they decide what's going to get published.
That's why I really encourage everyone out there to, to, to
write stuff on the X platform and you know, other platforms
too. But citizen journalism is the
future, you know, and that's where you get to hear from
actual experts in the field, people who are really who are
experts in any given industry. And you get to hear the
rebuttal. So if somebody says something
that's, that's wrong or requires more context, people can add
that, you know, XX has got community notes, which is great,
you know, so take your community notes.
I think is got a very good batting average.
It's not perfect, but it's got a very good batting average.
And, and I, you know, many times I've gotten requests like, can
we get rid of this community note?
I'm like, no, we cannot, not even a community note on myself.
So with community notes, all the code is open source.
All the data is open source. So you can recreate any given
community nodes independently. And that transparency is how you
know that it's true and it's real and it's honest.
So that's, that's, yeah. But, and I think we've got, you
know, besides, man, this, the mic feedback's getting a little
crazy. So maybe I should, should I go
further back or further forward? Well, there's an X on the floor,
I guess I'm guessing that's where I should stand.
OK, Yeah. All right.
Yeah.
So, yeah, the landing the the rock ship was pretty cool.
That was an amazing thing, so. Yeah, this, this SpaceX team is
an incredible team. And it's, it's wild that this
giant 250 ton object went to space, came back and was caught
by giant meccazilla arms. It's like, you know, it's super
cool. That's the kind of thing that,
you know, that I think is, is inspiring and exciting.
And, you know, there's a lot of potential.
I think we, we can actually build a a permanently occupied
science base on the moon. We can build a city on Mars.
We can be a multi planet species and out there among the stars.
It's very exciting. You know, so I'm, I'm wearing
this jacket that was given to me by the Space force.
You know, it's got Star Trek Enterprise on it.
You know, it's like Starfleet Academy.
We want to make Starfleet Academy real, you know, and, and
go out there and visit those star systems eventually and see
if there are alien civilizations.
Maybe they're alien civilizations that that existed
for millions of years and, and we just find the, you know, the
ruins of many long dead alien civilizations.
I don't know. Well, they might be, but very
interesting to see, you know, because you know, at least
according to physics, the universe is 13.8 billion years
old and Earth is about four and a half billion years old.
So even if you just increment the time counter by a million
years, you have to go 3 digits past decimal place, go bloop a
million years. And the oldest writing that
we've discovered in archaeology is only 5500 years old.
Only for that's nothing. That's a millionth of Earth's
existence as it was the first writing.
And you really have to add it to the ancient Sumerians.
By the way, those are got a lot of firsts.
Those ancient Sumerians, they're really knocking out of the park,
frankly. You know, we're just, they take
clay tablets and everything. It's thankfully they wrote in
clay tablets. So it was quite helpful.
I mean, they've even discovered like schoolwork, like where they
teach the kids cuneiform on clay tablets.
And then there's the teacher correcting the cuneiform in red
ink. It's been going on for a while.
So yeah, we are a mere 5500 year old civilization, just a baby
really, but with a lot of potential.
I think we, you know, we can go out there, we can make life
multi planetary, understand the universe, find out what's going
on. Maybe the aliens will come visit
us. Maybe they are here right now.
I don't know. So alien registration card.
So yeah, if people do ask me like do I think aliens are
amongst I'm like, I haven't seen any.
Yeah, this is this is a legal aliens, but a lot of those but
but not I haven't seen any like sort of green aliens with
antennas on the head or anything like that.
And maybe they are, they're just very subtle, but I haven't seen
him so but, but I think we, we, we want to be kind of, we want
to be the aliens exploring other galaxies, you know, And, you
know, I grew up watching Star Trek and Star Wars was the first
movie that I ever saw in a theater and it obviously
affected me a lot. And we just want to have these
sort of glorious, amazing, I don't know, space, future real,
you know, and. And have exciting, inspiring
things that make you glad to wake up when you wake up, the
one you're glad to be alive. They have to be these things,
you know, life cannot. Yeah.
So. Yeah.
Well, I think we can. So that you can travel to Mars
roughly every two years. So every 26 months the planets
align and you can travel from from Earth to Mars.
And we're actually at a planetary alignment moment right
now or in the next few months. And so in roughly 2 years, there
will be another planetary alignment.
And and that's when we intend to send the first Starship rockets
to Mars. Yeah.
So that's, I think we can probably send quite a few in two
years. And then if those land
successfully and we do not increment the crater count in
Mars, crater count before and after equals the same, then we
can send people in four years. We will be illegal aliens on
Mars. You know, I guess if there's
any, you know, if any Martians, maybe they'll make Mars great
again. Yeah.
You know, Mars, what did have oceans a long time ago, it seems
like. Yeah.
Like when Mars is a lot hotter, it had a lot what appears to be
liquid oceans. And if you want Mars up, it'll
have an ocean on about 40% of the Earth's of Mars surface.
So Mars would be about have an ocean, I think almost like a
mile deep on 40% of the of the surface if you just warmed it
up. So there's a ton of a massive
amount of frozen ice on Mars. So yeah, it is kind of Mike Mars
great again, because you can warm it up and it can be an
Earth like planet. So I think this is actually very
important for the long term. The longevity of of
consciousness is to be a multi planet species.
It's actually very important. So because there's always some
chance that something could happen on Earth that's either,
you know, a man made disaster or a natural disaster like the, you
know, the meteor that killed dinosaurs.
I mean, there have been many mass extinction events in
Earth's history. And there will be there will be
mass extinction events. Yeah.
There's a de facto mass extinction events of, of humans,
actually, the the birth rate is plummeting.
So, but the probable lifespan of civilization will be much
greater if we are a multi planet species than if we are a single
planet species. We don't want to be one of those
lame one planet civilizations is what I'm saying.
You know, so we want to be a multi planet civilization.
And now just, I'm not talking about like a lot of resources,
but like, I don't know, 1% of our resources seems like a wise
move to be a multi planet species.
And I kind of just ultimately find out what's going on, like
visit others, visit other star systems.
And and I think one day Mars may actually play a role similar to
the role that America has played in saving the world.
You know, America saved the world three times last century.
That's a big deal. World War 12 and the Cold War.
So Earth would be very different if not for for America saving
the day three times last century.
So, yeah, Amen. Indeed.
So, So I think in the future, Mars, they used to call America
the new world, and Mars would be the new, new world and I but
actually, you know, planet. So I think, I think one day Mars
may save Earth just as America saved the rest of the world.
And I think that's a big deal. Yeah.
As you can tell, I love space and rockets.
Case that wasn't obvious so let's see we can go right into
questions and and just just sort of have it.
It's always good to have like get the discussion going with
people. So I the lights are very bright
in my eyes so I can hardly I can't see what's going on.
There's two big lines. OK great.
Well, let's see how should we start.
OK, go ahead. OK, sure.
Hi Elon, my name is Ashley and I'm from Lancaster County and I
have a 7 year old son named Daniel.
And he made me promise that if I got to talk to you, I had to
tell you that he thinks that the cyber truck is the coolest thing
that has ever been invented. So he owes me one now for
telling you that. But so my question centers
around higher education. So I'm going to age myself a
little bit. But 20 years ago, when I
graduated high school, I made the decision not to go to
college and just to enter in the workforce.
And it worked really well for me.
But I did get a lot of slack from it from people that thought
that that was kind of crazy. And now I've seen, you know, the
attitude toward higher education kind of changing and that not
being the only model that we have.
So my questions sort of twofold here.
So when it comes to like my children, who, you know, will
eventually be needing to make that decision, you know, what
decision or what, what advice would you give in comparison to
like a trade school, higher education or just entering the
workforce? And from an employer standpoint
in, you know, 10 to 15 years, what do you think employers are
going to be looking for from this next generation that will
be entering the workforce? Sure.
Well, I, I do think that probably too often people do do
a university or college thing for four years and it's
unnecessary, You know, it's, and, and then they accrue a lot
of debt and it's hard to pay off the debt and, and they often
don't learn skills that are very useful.
So it's, it's not, you know, I think we should really
reconsider whether going to college actually makes sense.
I think it doesn't always. So, you know what I think and,
and to also get like, what's the point of, of a, of going to
school in general? It's you're supposed to learn
useful things. You know, it's improve your
understanding of the world and and learn skills that can help
you contribute to your fellow human beings.
But very often at university does the opposite.
In fact, you know, it will propagandize kids and not teach
them anything useful and just saddle them with a lot of debt.
So, so I think you know what, what really matters is like, are
you doing something useful to help your fellow human beings?
Are you contributing more than you take?
And if you are, that's a great thing.
Though now we are headed into a pretty wild future here with
artificial intelligence and robotics.
I, I think especially if you, if you look say like 1010 years
from now or more that we're going to have, the world's going
to look very different. I think it's, it's like 80%
likely to be good. You know, like the glass is 80%
full, you know, and, and most likely we'll have, I think we'll
probably have a situation which is universal high income,
actually not universal basic income, but universal high
income and there will be no shortage of goods and services.
That is what I think is most likely to occur.
And we need to make sure that this AI is and, and these robots
are on the side of humanity. You know, obviously, you know,
James Cameron made a, made a couple movies about that.
You know, it's, you got to watch what, what you program these
robots to do. And you know, the example I've
used a few times is, you know, when, when Google Gemini came
out, people asked, well, which one's worse, misgendering
Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war and said,
well, misgenerating Caitlyn Jenner is worse.
It's like we've got a problem with this AI And, and even
Caitlyn Jenner said, yeah, you should definitely misgender me.
That's crazy. So, you know, we don't want to
have an AI that's, that concludes that the best way to
avoid misgendering is to execute all humans that therefore
reducing the probability of misgendering to 0 because there
are no humans. You know, like that's some kind
of crazy stuff that that could potentially happen that we want
to avoid, which is why I think we, we want to have a maximum
truth seeking AI. You know, it's got to be kind of
based in a good way and just be an honest and truthful and
forthright AI that that's the the best path to safety for
artificial intelligence. So.
Hi, Elon, I'm Christine. I'm from Lancaster County.
I want to extend a heartfelt welcome from all of us in
Lancaster County. Thank you.
Thank you for all that you do. My question surrounds government
and efficiency. What would be your plan to make
government more efficient? Yeah.
Well, so I, I think the first of all, we're in terms of people
sometimes ask like where would you start with government
efficiency? And it's kind of like being in a
room where the entire room is targets.
And so you can shoot in any direction and not miss.
It's like I just impossible to miss because every direction is
a target. So there's no missed
possibility. Now we do have a fundamental
issue, which is that that the government is spending far much
that far, far more than it brings in.
And the reality is that all, all government spending is actually
taxation. All government spending is
taxation. Sometimes people think some of
it is taxation and some of it's not, but it's all taxation
because the part that is not covered by by tax revenue
becomes inflation. So you're either taxed directly
or you're taxed by inflation, but you're but you're for sure
taxed and, and, and so all government spending is taxation.
So we have to reduce government spending overall like this.
This will be forced upon us in the future because already just
the interest payments on the debt are 23% of all federal tax
revenue. Just the interest payments, the
interest payments now exceed the Defense Department budget, which
is a trillion dollars a year. That's a lot of money.
So just the interest on the debt is exceeds what we spend on the
military, just the interest and that is rising rapidly.
So so it it can't be like, you know, we'll we'll trim a little
bit here and there. If that's not going to work
there, there have to be quite radical reductions in cost.
Yeah. And I think we just need to be,
you know, if you know, please Lord drop wins the you know,
and, and, and the Department of Government efficiency happens.
We, we want, we're going to be very open and transparent and be
very clear about this is what we're doing here are the issues.
This is, this is the, the math for what what's being spent and,
and what you know, and, and we're going to make it.
We're going to make the spending lower.
And if, if somebody's got a better idea for how to make the
spending lower, we're tell us, but but if we don't, we're going
to bankrupt the country. And, and so we got to do
something and, and it's got to be like some pretty big moves.
Yeah. I'd say like drain, drain the
swamps. This is like a there's so many
swamps. It's, it's like, you know,
there's so many swamps there's yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's just nutty that like there was a massive
increase in IRS personnel and, and, and instead of adding
people to the Border Patrol, like this is totally backwards.
It's it's like, like you can continue to main remain a
federal employee, but you have to go, go out the border.
That's your new job. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's
like, why are we, why are we spending money and applying
resources to oppress the American people while rolling
out a red carpet for illegal? So it doesn't make any sense.
So. So yeah, it would have to be
pretty big. I mean, there's, I actually have
tried Googling it and I've asked all the AIS how many, how many
government agencies are there? And even the government doesn't
know, OK. And the AIS don't know, like
you, they're like, well, it's about 450, but maybe it's 420.
I'm like 420. No kidding.
That's that's a lot of agencies just at the federal level.
I mean, like if you sort of stand back and say, OK, just for
a second, like let's say we're starting the country again, how
many agencies do we need? Do we need more than 99?
Because that's 99's a lot of agencies, you know, like that's,
that's a lot. You know, if you said like does
any, how many people even know 99 agencies?
I'd say most. I'd say practically no one and
knows 19 knows the names of 99 agencies, let alone the 420 or
whatever there are. Yeah.
So we, we, we have to unwind the situation and, and, and I think,
well, I think we're going to do it.
And it's going to unleash a new era of prosperity because people
that don't even realize how much they're getting held back by
millions of federal regulations, millions literally so.
And if it turns out that that that we accidentally got rid of
a good regulation, we'll just put it back.
Is that easy? I'm Dan from Pennsylvania as
well. I am a teacher, public school
teacher, and I just bought a Tesla this year and it's been
amazing for my one hour commute. Great.
So thank you about that. Cool.
Did you try self driving? Yes.
Oh my gosh, pretty cool. It it blows like I when I go
into the teacher parking lot and I just tried the summon today.
Yeah, like, yeah, everybody stalls hit the floor.
Yeah, as well. Yeah.
So Republicans need to get out the vote.
And as the mail in balloting becomes more common, what can I
tell my friends about the safety and security of mail in ballots?
Yeah, this election and future elections.
And then real quick, also sure. My daughter is is 2.
She her name is Isabella. She loves the planets and loves
astronomy. Is already and I want to know
what I can as a teacher do to help inspire her curiosity for
the habits of the stars. Sure.
Well, with Missy, with respect to voting, voting integrity, I
think probably the best thing to do is to hand it in in person.
But you can also mail it in and you can check to see whether
your your ballot has been received.
So it is possible to check online or in person to see if
your ballot has been received. But I would encourage people to
vote early because what can happen is that, you know,
November 5th comes around and there's like you got something
critical at work or there's like a family emergency or, you know,
there's, yeah, some mysterious cybersecurity event that you
never know, might happen. So, you know, anything can crop
up on November 5th, whether it's personal or some, you know,
there could be some other, some other issue.
So it's it's it is best to vote early now.
It is very encouraging to see the early vote numbers because
if you compare the early vote numbers this year to 2020,
there's about AI think the last numbers I saw it's like a 2 to
300,000 voter difference from 2020.
That's a huge that's major because because I I think it was
like an 80,000 vote threshold last time.
So Biden won ish by by by 80,080 thousand votes.
That was the number that was reported.
And, and, but the interesting thing is that that the the Delta
or early votes is now 200, I think maybe approaching 250 or
even 300,000 in better than 2020, which is far in excess of
the margin of the 20 of 2020. So Pennsylvania is trending in
the right direction. It's very encouraging, but but
there's still a lot of work to do and we don't want to be
complacent. So definitely get everyone you
know to, to vote. And as I mentioned earlier,
people can actually go in, in person on Monday and Tuesday if
they're concerned about putting anything in the mail.
And, and they can actually get their ballot.
Like even if they don't have the ballot, they can literally go to
the, the county office, get the ballot even though it says
absentee and then hand it in even though you're not absent.
It's weird, but it, it works. But it, it stops working on
Wednesday and then the next opportunity is November 5th.
So it's kind of quirky, but that's, that's those are the
current rules. And then let's see with respect
to your daughter. And, you know, I think in order
to inspire, like kids are inspired by real amazing
imagery. Like they see something amazing,
they see a rocket taking off, a rocket landing or, you know,
robots walking around or like cool things, like the stuff that
you see in sci-fi movies. And when they see stuff like
that, they're, they're, they're inspired automatically.
They're inspired because it's because there are real
advancements in technology. And that's, you know, that's,
that's, that's what inspires kids because it's because it
should, you know, like kids are like a great filter for, for
what's awesome. Like you can tell like if a
little kid reacts like, wow, that's amazing.
And that's like, that's real, you know, So, you know, like
kids love the cyber truck and they love rockets, you know, and
that's because they have no filter.
They just say what they immediately say what they think,
you know? So, yeah.
So it's, it's great new rocket technology that allows us to,
like I said, go there and be, have a permanent science station
on the moon. And not just like it's great
that we're into the moon. Yep, 50 plus years ago, but we
want to go to the moon and actually have a science base.
Like we've got a science base in Antarctica.
Well, we should have a science base on the moon and we should
be building a city on Mars. And I actually think it's, it's
the, the, the long term future of civilization, I think could
be decided by whether or not we, we built a self-sustaining city
on Mars. And if we do that, that is the
city that would have millions of people.
And it would be like, if anybody wants to go to Mars, that they
could. And that would be an incredibly
exciting, inspiring thing to to, to aspire to go to Mars.
They're like, wow, let's make that real.
Yes, let's bring her to Mars. Yeah.
If she thinks like, wow, one day I could go to Mars, you know,
and, and, and be one of the the Martians.
And that would be super awesome. You know, it's, it's wildly you
go, it takes six months actually, when you go from Earth
to Mars, you're just, you're just travelling across this,
this void of nothingness for hundreds of millions of miles
until eventually you you reach another planet.
It's kind of incredible to think that that's even possible, but
and how amazing would that be? You know, like wow, like that.
We want to have a future where life is multiplanetary, where
we're advancing rocket technology.
And like I said, we're we're Star Trek Starfleet Academy is
real. And that's what will inspire
your daughter. All right.
Hi, Elon. My name is Lauren from
Pennsylvania. Thank you for being here.
Thank you for everything you're doing, and congratulations with
SpaceX. You and your whole team are
absolutely brilliant. I have two specific questions
for you, but I was curious because I looked all over on X
today and I didn't see anybody who won the $1,000,000 prize.
What? Is that given out today?
Well, let's see we all we all going to give it out tonight, in
fact. So let's is it is to go ahead
and do it. Yeah.
OK, let's do it. Good timing.
All right, Judy Kimura. Yeah, Judy has no idea by the
way, it's just loading now, so, but I think Judy's on her way
here. I said Judy had no learnt when
you learnt. All right, Well, thank you.
All right. I mean, we're, we're trying to
get, we're trying to get attention for this very
important petition to support the Constitution.
And it's, it's, you know, it's, it's like if we, you know, we
need the, the right to free speech, we need the right to
bear arms. Otherwise, there is no right to
free speech and. Yeah, and, and it's, you know,
people sort of wonder why, why didn't, why what's up with the
$1,000,000 prizes? I'm like, well, we needed to get
the legacy media to talk about it.
And, and I, I just knew that they would be like complaining
like hell about it. That like for sure complaining
on every, every newspaper at every TV station or complaining
like like crazy. And I was like, great, that's
going to get the word out. Most welcome.
All right. Can you say hi to my son Kaden?
And yes, Kaden and Kaylee. Hi, Kaden and Kaylee Hi.
All right, Hello. So, yeah, so we're, we're going
to be giving out $1,000,000 every day through November 5th.
And, and all, all you have to do is sign the petition in support
of the 1st and 2nd Amendment. That's it.
You don't, you don't even have to vote.
It'd be nice if you voted, but you don't have to.
And that to support the basically assigned something you
already believe in and you got a chance to win $1,000,000 every
day from now through the election.
Yeah. Congratulations, Judy.
Let me know if you want to share two specific questions for you,
Elon. One regarding your concern about
the declining birth rate. Yeah, it's a big deal.
It is besides us is women having more and more children and since
we're the only ones who can give birth, yes, what would you?
I mean, you do need a womb is to need a womb is necessary
otherwise you can't have kids currently.
It is necessary. What would be your solution?
Would you be in favor of creating or supporting an IVF
surrogacy program to increase the birth rates?
And my second question is about what would you recommend toward
the first steps on improving our American educational system?
Thank you. Yeah, I mean, in general, like I
think we we should really view the the birth rate as like
extremely fundamental crisis. Like it's, it's really shocking
how low it, it is. You know, the, the birth rate in
America, in the United States has been below replacement rate
since I was born roughly, roughly around 1971 or so.
That's since then America has been below replacement rate.
And, and pretty much every country, it seems, it seems as
soon as they reach a certain level of prosperity, the birth
rate drops below replacement. And then I started looking into,
well, has this happened before in history?
And in fact, it has, it's in, in, in basically every
civilization in the past. It's, it's maybe counter
intuitive, but the more prosperous that a civilization
becomes, the lower the birth rate.
So it, it's because you think, well, with prosperity you'd have
more resources than you'd have more kids.
Actually, no. The historical fact is that the
longer that a civilization has been prosperous, the worse it's
birth rate got. And this was an issue even in
ancient Rome, like in 50 BC. There's like actually wherever
we still have like the Roman laws that were written, they've
passed laws to try to improve the birth rate of Roman citizens
in 50 BC. So like, basically this is a
fundamental civilizational challenge that has been
encountered many times before. It's not something that just,
you know, happened recently. It's, it's, it's occurred
throughout the cycle of civilizations.
And I, I, I don't, I hope we can at least partly reverse it.
And I think part of that is at least bringing it to conscious
awareness because I, I meet many people who think that there are
too many humans on Earth, but this is not true.
There aren't enough humans on Earth.
In fact, you can fit all the humans on Earth in the city of
New York on one floor. OK, so or, or like if, if you,
if you fly across the country and you look down and say if
you, if you're, if you had to drop a ball on someone's head,
would you succeed? And you would not because the
density of people is very low. There's the, there are actually
very few people on Earth. It's only if you live in a very
dense city environment that it seems that there are many people
that that Earth is densely populated, but it is only
densely populated in like .1% of the surface area.
So at least want to bring it to conscious awareness so people
don't think that Earth is overpopulated when in fact Earth
is under populated. That is the truth.
Yeah, yeah. Obligates is, and I are not best
friends to say the least. So I don't know.
He is, you know, I think there's you can arguably, arguably say
like, look that maybe the real distinction is not right or
left, but is someone an expansionist or an
extinctionist. So he has some issues.
This is true. So, but, but like if you say
like, like any given civilization, it's, it's not
going to be exactly steady. So it's like they'll so any
given civilization is either going to be growing or
declining. And so you have to say you can
kind of divide any person's actions into are they
expansionist or extinctionist? And I mean, obviously I'm super
expansionist oriented because I think that's a far more exciting
future than going extinct. You know, sounds obvious when
you say it like that. So, yeah, So it's just, but I
still run into a lot of people who think Earth is
overpopulated. So I'm like kind of hammering
this point. We're not overpopulated, we're
underpopulated. And you know, so I'm in favor of
really, you know, we need to have babies by whatever means,
whether it's IBF, surrogacy, whatever the case may be.
You know, that can that can certainly help and but we just
can't go extinct like with humans need to, you know, I
think humanity is great and we should have get bigger.
Yeah. We we want to expect.
I think we we should expand the scope and scale of consciousness
so we can better understand the nature of the universe.
I mean, that's the foundation of my philosophy.
Yeah. Make babies great again.
Yes. So yeah, hopefully that was that
was helpful. So.
Yeah. Hi, I'm Mary Ressler and I live
in Lancaster, PA. I'm a teacher here.
I've been following you because of your work with World Literacy
with X Prize as I was a participant in Barbara Bush X
Prize with an app development called Literacy Speedway.
But my passion is turning because since COVID, every day
in the trenches, in the classroom, I see the effects of
mental health on our students. Not only students, but I've seen
two of my brothers commit suicide.
I've seen my own daughter who wasn't able to get a bed and a
facility and had to wait months. I have seen what's happened to
American families because of the mental health crisis and the
lack of resources. Our mental health system in
America is broken. And so even though I have a
passion for world literacy and always will, I also would like
to ask you, because I know of your collaboration, your
contacts, contacts with the election, with what the new
administration can possibly do, what can you guys do to fix our
broken mental health system in America?
Sure. Well, I mean I'd be curious to
hear your thoughts and suggestions.
I mean, my, my sort of observation is that we do, we
over prescribe medication and, and, and, and, but you know,
like there's a lot, a lot of regulation, in fact, too much
regulation about getting any, any given medication approved.
But then after it's approved, there's no follow up to see,
hey, did we make a mistake? And then you get, so you get
things that are approved and they just go hog wild and, and
it's causing a lot of damage. But there's, there's not really
a good revocation capability. So it doesn't make sense.
Like there are good drugs that are not being approved and there
are bad drugs that have been approved.
This is a broken system. We need to fix it.
I think very often when, when somebody has committed suicide
or if they've essentially if, if, if something's if something
as bad has happened, like what were they prescribed, That is an
important thing. Do you have any thoughts on
this? I do have thoughts on it.
I feel like in the brick and mortar school in the educational
setting, not only do the states because I know it's it's
education is state dictated even though there's national national
Common Core curriculum that there needs to be mental health
services embedded into every school at this juncture.
There also needs to be facilities in every state, not a
six month wait to see psychiatrist as in Pennsylvania
at times or a 12 months to get a bed in a mental facility.
The asylums unfortunately weren't the fix years ago in
America because they were horrible.
But when they were taken away, authority went to the states.
Federal money was taken away and now you have outpatient services
and there's a lack of prescribers, there's a lack of
counselors, there's a need for more.
And every day our prison system right now is housing half
almost. And I could give you the data
to, to you know, they're, they're not there because
they're criminals. They're there because they have
mental health issues and it needs fixed.
OK. Are there any particular
medications you think should be pulled from the market or added
to the market? I believe that every child when
they're diagnosed with a mental health condition should have
there's there is a test for it. There's some kind of tongue tat
that that can dictate which medications will work and won't
work for you. However, you have to ask as a
parent for that test and I can guarantee from my experience in
this with parents working in the school district or just from
friends and other associates, most people aren't even aware of
it because it's not paid by 4 insurance and most Americans
can't afford it. So when things aren't covered
under your insurance they're not given.
Like a doctor isn't going to prescribe that that is done.
So you have to have the self-awareness and knowledge to
go and have that testing done, and most people unfortunately
just don't know it even exists. OK, All right.
Well, I think this is definitely and and it's something that we
need to to figure figure out better.
It's, it is clearly, I agree with you that there's, there's a
mental health issue and I, I think we need to look at like
what, what drugs actually work and, and, and, and what are the
side effects? And, and some of them I, I mean,
yeah, I think, I think some of them are, are, are pretty
sketch, frankly, that some of the drugs that are, that are
prescribed, I mean, some of the stories I've heard about some of
the psychiatric meds from people are, are pretty bad.
Like it's like the reason they weren't in this, in some cases,
the reason they wanted to commit suicide is when they when they
took the drugs, not when they didn't take the drugs.
You know, people, people do need to believe in something.
And so, you know, I think I think they're probably a nature
of hoes of vacuum. So if there is, you know,
there's a certainly a strong argument that the decline in
religion has has led to people seeking a new religion,
essentially secular religion. So that is, you know, Organism
is essentially a secular religion, but it's it's believed
very fervently. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's it's, it's a strong, strong argument for church.
I agree. So.
They need substance. They need natural things.
Mother and mother. Oh, that's true.
All right. Well, let's see.
So. Hi.
Good evening.
My name is Janelle. It's nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. I wanted to.
Actually, first, thank you and probably behalf on everyone here
to thank you for creating the pack and the referral
opportunity. I think everyone here is
grateful. And I saw it as a way to support
2 amendments that I actually care about and don't want to see
go away. And secondly, I saw it as a way
that if I could refer my friends, family, and everyone
that I could go, I could earn some extra money.
My husband and I are actually self funding our own fertility
journey. I've got some unexplained
infertility. And so that money is going to
actually pay our bill next month.
And I've always wanted to become a mom.
And I have a dream to be a mom and I know one day it will
happen. I'm drawn to your population
concerns. I don't know if you've talked to
President Trump, but I would love to know if you would
consider pack or advocating a grant for fertility to make
Americans like myself be able to afford it.
And have a baby. Yeah.
Well, I, I'm, I'm, I'm super pro baby, so yes, yeah, absolutely.
I'm super, super pro baby. So yes, absolutely.
Hey Elon, my name is Furman Jones, and I just wanted to
start out and say I I really believe in you.
I know everybody in here believes in you for one reason
or another, and I'm super thankful to even get to ask you
a question. But anyways, I also believe in
the Constitution and I also believe in the Bible, and that's
what I'm going to ask you about. The Bible says that nobody's
perfect, and there's no perfect form of government on this earth
because greed is inevitable. It's like Churchill says that
democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the
other types. But the one government that the
Bible does say is perfect is the Kingdom of God.
And Isaiah 3322 says the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our king,
and the Lord is our our lawmaker.
So I feel like so much of your worldview aligns with biblical
principles, and we need Christians to vote and see that
greed, that communism is the greatest manifestation of evil
and greed. And so, yeah, that's my
question. How do we get Christians to
vote? And if you have time, what keeps
you from believing in the Bible or being more vocal about it?
So, yeah, well, it is interesting that actually I was
told that a surprisingly small percentage of evangelicals of
people that are really strong believers act as it's quite a
small percentage that votes. I, I thought and I, I hope I, I
Yeah, well, I, that's what I was told anyway.
But, but I saw, I certainly hope more, more people, more
Christians vote. That would be great.
Please do so. Yeah.
I mean, I, so I was, you know, brought up Christian and went to
actually somewhat strangely, went to Sunday school and also
my, I was sent to a Hebrew preschool.
You know, I'm not Jewish, but I was, I don't know, I was just
still, I think it was in the neighborhood or something, you
know, And so I was like hopping to Gila one day, Jesus is all
over the next. And I was like, great.
So you know, so I, you know, I certainly I'm, I'm, I believe in
the like the teachings of Christ.
I believe, you know, that he's like, I believe in the Christian
principles, you know, love thy neighbor.
I believe in turn the other cheek, which is very important
for to have forgiveness, because if you don't have forgiveness,
then you have an endless cycle of retribution.
You know, like, you know, I used to think like why would you turn
the other cheek? That's ridiculous.
You know, just sponge them. But, and, and I think you do
need to actually be strong, like you can't be weak because if
somebody's, if you're facing sort of a predatory threat and
that threat is stronger than you and that and that threat doesn't
believe in Christian values, then you will just get, you
know, executed. I mean, I don't know, but but at
a certain point it once you are strong, once you are, once you
are strong, you should, you should forgive the the
transgressions of, of others, you know, and that this is
obviously not something they believe in the Middle East,
which is why there's this endless cycle of, of violence,
you know. So I really think that, yeah, we
should, yeah, should love thy neighbor.
And we should forgive and we should, we should be kind and
gentle. So yeah, I believe.
I believe in what Jesus. I believe.
I believe in what Jesus said. Yeah.
So, yeah. Hello, Elon Musk.
My name is Grant Naugle. Hi, family.
It's really, really good to to meet you.
My first question was, do you have an answer to life, the
universe and everything? Well, the classic answer is 42
and and 4:20 is just 1040 twos. Interesting.
But my real question, yes, sorry.
My real question would be what is the most useful, most
powerful piece of advice you have ever received?
The most useful piece of advice? Well, that's a tough one.
Yes, indeed. Vote Republican.
It's yeah. I mean, this is, this is maybe
going to sound like maybe I'd like, I believe in like, like,
well, if you study physics, if you, if you study I, I just
recommend studying physics, you know, and, and, and, and the,
the tools of physics of the, the sort of the, the thinking tools
that it's, it's, it's not, it's not just a bunch of, it's what
matters is not remembering a bunch of formulas.
What matters is the thinking process that led to the
discovery of those formulas. It's sort of critical thinking,
first principles analysis, trying to understand what is
true at a most fundamental level, and then reasoning up
from there and testing your conclusions against the most
fundamental truths. In any given arena.
This is how you can figure out whether something is more likely
to be true or not. And I think it's, it's good to
think in terms of probabilities. So you receive information about
a subject that that should change the probability of your
conclusion, but but not the certainty of your conclusion.
Like so in physics teaches you that you should not be 100%
certain that about any given prediction.
Now there's some things that are highly likely, but but physics
teaches you, you've got to, you've got to assign a
probability to something being true.
And then as you learn more information, your original
conclusion may be wrong. And then, you know, you should
then change your mind based on the new information.
I mean, you can think of intelligence kind of as just how
good is I think the yeah, probably the right metric for
intelligence is the ability to predict, predict the future.
If you can predict the future, well, then you're then you're
you're as intelligent as you can predict the future.
Well, because if something, if somebody claims, well, this is
thing is this this person or, or this AI is very intelligent,
like, well, what, how good are its predictions?
And if its predictions are not very good, it's not that smart.
So, so that's, that's I think the key nature of intelligence.
And if you're trying to decide what to do in the future, it is
really it just, it comes down to predicting the future and to
break the future, you have to think critically about the past
and constantly try to be less wrong.
So maybe that would be maybe that would be right up there in
terms of best advice. Aspire to be less wrong.
Hi, Elon, yes, First off, thank you so much for having us here
today. We always appreciate that we
have somebody in in your level of influence that can listen to
regular people and then kind of get our voices heard.
And it's also not everyday that a person gets to meet their hero
and ask them a question. So my main question is since
COVID. The current administration has
really put a struggle with small businesses and especially here
in PA we've seen a large decline in both the foundation of small
business and we. I've personally known several
small businesses that have had to close due to increasing
regulation. Taxes.
Exactly. It's, it's the, the, the burden
of, of excess regulation is very severe and it crushes a lot of
small, small companies and it makes big companies operate
much, you know, much less efficiently so.
So how do you think that we as small business owners and non
small business owners can fight against this?
And also what can you do as a former small business owner that
you can kind of fight for us? Well, I mean, to your point, I
think a dramatic reduction in government spending and
government over regulation, like I call it sort of America is
getting sort of strangulation by over regulation will unleash in
your era of prosperity. Just allow people to do useful
and productive things and don't make it a two year permitting
nightmare, which is often is, and then burden small businesses
with taxes that they can go bankrupt.
So, yeah, it's pretty straightforward.
Like I said, it's, it's kind of mind blowing that there are over
400 federal agencies governing our lives.
Most of them people have never heard of, but they, they, they
do affect your life and on balance negatively.
So we just need far fewer agencies and get the government
off your back. Yeah.
Hi, my name is Mark from Lancaster.
Thank you for your time, for the most valuable thing you can give
to any organization. So thank you.
Time is through currency. Thank you, Sir.
So my question is, my wife is a natural or at least U.S.
citizen. She's registered to vote.
I. Banked my vote already.
I was just wondering if you'd be willing to talk about, I mean we
did it the right way, we took years and money and we got her
naturalized the right way. If you'd be willing to talk
about your experience at all with immigration and also other
than secure border, how you see fixing that system?
Yeah, well, since your wife has gone through the process of
becoming a citizen and getting green card, you've seen how
absurdly slow and arduous it is. So I mean, I think the the
general principle that makes sense is the same principle that
you'd operate a professional sports team on or a company,
which is like, who would you want on your team?
And if, if somebody's going to be productive, like productive
and honest and a net contributor, and that'd be a
great addition to the team. Welcome aboard.
And it should be not a long process because they'll they'll,
they'll produce more than they consume.
They'll make everyone, everyone's lives better.
And so we have this bizarre situation, which is like mind
blowing that it is easier to get into this country as a murderer
than as a Nobel laureate. Literally.
That's not an exaggeration. Which is like what, you know,
it's like, I mean, it's like if like if you have the opportunity
to say have like, you know, LeBron James or Steph Curry on
your team and you'd be like, yeah, that would make total
sense. Our team's going to win.
They'll make the whole team better.
You know, So we, we, we, we want to actually, we need to have
things be what they should, which is that that legal
immigration of honest, hard working, talented people is
quick and easy. And coming into the country
illegally is hard. That's how it should be.
Yeah. So honestly, like, OK, I'd like
kind of a crazy idea. This one's going to hit the
press, which is like, what if we gave legal immigration job to
Chick-fil-A? They are so efficient.
They make an amazing chicken sandwich.
Their chicken sandwiches are epic and they make a zillion of
them and they just get it done. I think we should give the
immigration job to Chick-fil-A. They'll crush.
That's going to be a headline Hello Mr. Musk.
But honestly, it would be great. Hello Mr. Musk, it's an honor to
meet you. So my question is this, and I
ask for this as a first time voter, as we know, Trump did not
and has not accepted the results of the 2020 election, one which
has been called the most secure in the nation's history by the
former president's own Department of Homeland Security.
Similarly, similarly, I saw the violent disruption of the
electoral vote count on the news during January 6th.
So my and I asked this as a first time voter who wants to
discern the truth. Sure.
What would you say to comfort the concerns of young voters
like me who are worried that voting for a second Trump
presidency will lead to democratic backsliding?
Well, I think that's a fair question, honestly, the I think
it is, it is. It is a fair question.
I mean, The thing is that, yeah, like I want to frame this
correctly and obviously anything I say the the legacy media is
going to take a sound bite out of what I say and, and, and, and
misconstrue what I'm saying, which is something they've done
with President Trump many times. It is very important.
If you if you've heard something bad about President Trump,
listen to his whole speech. That's actually very important.
You know, and you know, on January 6th, I mean, his
statements on that day, he told people to back down.
I mean, he said, he said do not do violence.
And then people were like saying, well, that's actually
some sort of dog whistle about doing violence.
I'm like, what are you supposed to say?
You know, he he did actually tell people to, to not not be
violent. He recommended that the National
Guard be deployed. Nancy Pelosi said no, So he
didn't call for any violence. He didn't call for any violence.
Exactly. And if you look at like, while
it obviously, you know, I think it was, you know, like the level
of disruption was, was high. And I, I don't, I don't know,
applaud any, any kind of damage to public property, of course,
that you know, but it's, you know, the media tries to
characterize January 6th as some, some, some sort of violent
insurrection, which is simply not the case.
I mean, that is false. So, you know, I, I, I would
take, I think probably what I think is the reasonable middle
ground, which is I, I disagree with the level of protest, but
I, it is in was in no way of violent insurrection.
You know, the the so that's there's got to be a lot of guns
for the to be a violent insurrection.
And, and, and they were there were a lot of strange things
from in terms of voting irregularities that are hard to
explain. So what what what it's Yeah.
I mean, there were things that are statistically unlikely when
you put it that way. And, and so it, it's not as
though the January 6 protesters had that their protests had no
merit. They had some merit.
I disagree with the, the magnitude of what they did, but
I, I, I, but it's, it's not as though there were no issues.
There were actually, there were issues.
And, and we have this weird situation in America where it is
almost impossible to prove fraud and it because if you've got no
voter ID and mail in ballots, how do you, how do you prove
fraud? And you know, and, and it does
seem more than a little odd that we don't have voter ID.
And, and New York could say states like California, which is
super majority Democrat, they passed a law banning voter ID in
any election whatsoever. Now, how is that supporting
democracy? That's not supporting democracy.
I mean, that's insane. Almost every country on earth
has voter ID requirements, but we don't Why?
And why do the same people that demanded vaccine IDs for you to
do anything, all the same ones who say no ID for voting.
Someone doesn't add up. It doesn't it doesn't add up.
You know, so I, I, I actually think I, I, I mean, my, my, my
opinion is that those who, who say Trump is a threat to
democracy are themselves the threat to democracy.
I'll tell you what, that was awesome.
Conspiracy was theory and now it's the truth.
And that's something. Honestly, at this point, at this
point, we're running out of conspiracy theories because
there's so many of them have come true that, that, that we
need, we, we actually need, can someone please come up with some
new conspiracies because we're, we're not them.
I mean, even the frogs might be real, you know, the frog
situation might be real. I don't know.
Right. You know, conspiracy.
We're here to help. Yeah, probably heard that.
Right, Right. Well, Elon, God bless you.
It's very nice to meet you, God. Bless you too.
My name's Andrew Morisky, Lancaster, PA native.
Yeah, I'm a small business owner of a barbershop 10 minutes down
the street, right, called Legacy Barbers.
Love to cut your hair sometime? If you will thank you.
So I wanted to ask you a question and also encourage you
with these few words, Augustine, who was a theologian and a
philosopher, said. You have made us for yourself, O
Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
And Second Chronicles 7 verse 14 says, If my people who are
called by my name should humble themselves and pray and seek my
face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.
So I want to encourage you with that brother.
Yeah, those are great, great woods.
Great woods. Amen.
And Elon, I'll tell you what,
been watching you now for a while, hearing the stuff you
say. We need more men like you and
this country that do that are not afraid to stand up to the
media legacy. They're not afraid to stand up
against people who think we're toxic masculinity.
We need more men. Yeah, you know this.
I've got a great counter argument for toxic masculinity,
which is if if masculinity is so toxic, how come the kids that
are messed up don't have dads? Riddle me that.
And some that you said earlier
and, and Amen to that. Yeah.
And I'm actually going to be a dad February.
Congratulations. I'm having a.
Baby, wow, thank you Lord, but the tweet that you had not too
long ago, it said and no one is even trying to assassinate Biden
or Kamala. Yeah, because it's pointless.
So, you know, nobody, nobody bother assassinating a public
right? Yeah.
You know, when are people going to start seeing that our country
is not when they keep saying democracy.
It's a constitutional Republic. Would you please make sure, if,
if you don't mind, to keep reminding people that we are a
Republic. We're free.
We're free because of Christ Jesus, and we're free because of
the men and women who died and shed blood for this country.
That's absolutely yes. Amen, brother.
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
I mean, a lot of people died to make this country what it is
today. A lot of people died.
Absolutely. Amen.
And man, people take it for granted, you know, So.
Yeah, well, America PAC is kind of the anti Soros PAC.
You know, something's got to be done about it.
So it's like, you know, I, I, I don't know what's up with that
guy. But honestly, like putting DAS
in like, it's like, it's like the Jokers in charge, you know,
it's like electing DAS that don't prosecute crime is insane.
It's like literally like Batman, Dark Knight, I mean, like, you
know, lock up, lock up the citizens and free the criminals.
It's insane. It's happening.
Yeah. I mean, like what?
This is total madness. So we need to stop that.
Yeah. So.
Yeah. Well, I think America is great,
but we want to be greater and we want to do awesome things.
We we want to do. And.
And you want to you want to look forward to the future and be
inspired and excited about the future.
You know, that's what makes life worth living.
Yeah, so all right, into the score of arm wrestling.
Oh yeah, arm wrestling. I I have looked, I not not in
depth, but I have looked into it and for for a while there, I did
like to actually read up on it and, and actually various
techniques for how to win at arm wrestling, which is like a lot
of it is, you know, get get your angles to yeah, get, yeah, get
your whole body into it and, and get your ankles.
So you can actually like if you if you know the techniques and
arm wrestling and somebody doesn't, you can actually win
against somebody much bigger. Yeah.
Well, yeah, no, no, I mean, I, I would challenge Biden, but that
would be ridiculous. You know, that would be so
unfair. So he can use two.
What if he can use his two hands?
Yeah, that'd be fine. So thank you.
Yeah. Yeah.
Make arm wrestling great again. Absolutely.
God bless. All right.
Hi, Elon, my name is Molly. I just want to thank you for
spending so much time in Pennsylvania.
I think what you're doing is amazing and it's making a real
impact. So God bless you, and I think
you're a natural treasure. Thank you.
My main concern is with the national debt, and I know you
talked a lot about reducing the spending side, but I was
wondering what kind of Trump policies and industries you
think will help grow the revenue side?
And along those lines, do you have any plans to bring more
Tesla manufacturing back to the US?
Well, Tesla actually is a massive manufacturer in the US.
In fact, the the biggest factory that's been built in recent
years is the Tesla factory in Texas.
So that's yeah. And and then there's another big
factory in Nevada, so there's Giga Nevada and Giga Texas and
maybe someday Giga Pennsylvania, so.
And that, that, that would be, that would be super cool.
I'm, I'm, I'm a huge believer in manufacturing.
I love manufacturing. I like making things.
I've spent a lot of time in the factory walking the floor.
I lived in the factory for a while, literally lived in the
factory. It was kind of like just kind of
like Vegas actually, because I didn't even see the outside, but
the lights were always on. But we had some tough times at
Tesla. It's really difficult to make
any kind of manufacturing company work.
And you know, yeah, Tesla's actually also the biggest
manufacturing employer in California still, but the state
is not super grateful. So, but, but yeah, I'm a big.
So, so we, we do a ton of manufacturing in the US and we,
we, we, we keep investing and increasing our manufacturing
activity in the US and, and SpaceX also is a massive
manufacturer. You know, SpaceX is the biggest
manufacturer of rockets and satellites in the world.
And yeah, so and and that's, that's, that's all in the US.
So SpaceX manufacturing is all in the US And and Tesla has
massive amounts of manufacturing in the US, like giant factories.
So I'm a big believer in manufacturing.
So it's from, I mean, I do think reform of the tax code, it makes
sense because it's extremely complicated and there are too
many loopholes. You know, I'm often pitched on
these loopholes. That's how I know they exist.
And I'm like, that sounds pretty shady.
I don't think we should do that. But like, well, lots of other
people are getting away with it. And we're like, yeah, but I
still don't think we should do it.
Yeah, for us with I'm the largest individual taxpayer in
history. So I, I paid $10 billion in tax,
over $10 billion in tax. You're welcome.
Like I, I sort of thought maybe the IRS would like, you know,
send me like a little trophy or something, you know?
Yeah. And like one of those like,
doesn't have to be expensive. It could be like, you know, one
of those like, like things you get for when kids win a karate
competition, like little plastic gold trophy or something like
that or a cookie or something. But I don't get anything.
I was like, you know, and but I I was happy to pay the taxes.
I don't mind. You know, it has a good week
this week. Yeah.
Stock market's wild, wild sort of roller coaster.
You know, I think Warren Buffett's got a good, good, a
lot of good sayings, actually. But one of his sayings, I
believe, is like, you know, having a publicly traded company
is like having someone stand outside your house and yell
house prices all day. And it's still the same house.
And you're like, why is this person yelling house prices at
me all day long? And that's what it's like being
in a publicly traded company. It's just, they just yell stock
prices at you all day long. And it's like, well, it's
actually still pretty much the same company as yesterday.
So it's it's it's, it's kind of weird being in a publicly traded
situation. But anyway, I think we should we
should to simplify the tax code, get rid of a lot of exceptions
and loopholes and make it easy to fill out taxes.
It shouldn't be this like extremely complicated thing.
Yeah. But, but overall I think that
like if we if we have less federal spending, then there is
less taxation. And so that's, and we, we, we
have to reduce federal spending. There's no way to make up for it
other than than reducing the federal spending.
And as I mentioned earlier, like a very important point that I
think is important for people to understand is that all federal
spending is taxation because what is not what they don't
receive, what federal company doesn't receive in direct
revenue, they make up for in inflation.
They just print money. So all federal spending is
taxation. Very important principle.
Almost nobody, very few people seem to even like, you know,
some of these like spend their life in economics.
I'll mention to them, hey, all spending, all federal spending
is taxation. They're like, first they'll
argue with me and they're like, then they'll agree it is because
it is either direct tax revenue or it is inflation.
All federal spending is taxation.
So we must reduce federal spending or we will go bankrupt
as a country, all right. Hey, Yvonne.
I'm Chadwick from Westchester, Pennsylvania.
I met you last week at. I met you last week at
Harrisburg. And since then, I've been
prouder than ever to wear my MAGA hat around.
You've really inspired me to wear it more and more.
And since then, I've had my car slashed with a key, which is
fine. Yeah, it's fine.
Trump got hit with a bullet in the air, and look at him.
He's doing good. So yeah, somebody chased me
around with a shopping cart. What's that?
Well, but yeah, that happens. That's just, that's a part of
Westchester, PA. It's actually.
I mean, I mean, at this point, it's like flying the rebel flag,
man. Yeah, you know.
Yeah, for real. It's an adventure.
Yeah. I've had some people be get mad
at me. Yeah, like big time.
I do have, I do have a question this time though.
I actually, I met somebody on XI do podcasting and I met somebody
on X directly through the platform.
I would call him a friend. His name is Derek and he has
something called spina bifida. It is spina bifida month right
now. So spina bifida awareness month.
I wanted to put the awareness out there is that it's a, a
spinal, his form was spinal kind of like issues.
And he has never been able to walk really never.
Wow. I guess not according from what
I learned, he's never he hasn't been able to walk like his whole
his whole life. So my question is, like for the
disabled community and for people like him, will things
like will things like Neuralink help?
And also, what will the Trump administration be doing for
people who are disabled to help them anything?
Well, yeah, so I, I think, I think there actually are a lot
of things that like medical devices and drugs that could be
approved that are sort of stuck in regulatory molasses.
Like they're just, you know, it's like trying to get anything
new approved is like running in molasses with lead shoes.
It's really slow. So, you know, a good friend of
mine was, was telling me how his mom was diagnosed with, with
brain cancer. And the doctor said like, well,
that's, that's pretty much game over, you know, and then he
talked to, but he's very enterprising guy, so he's going
to take that for an answer. And he asked every smart person
he knew, is there anything that that could help cure brain
cancer? Turns out there, there's this
drug called Welly Rake that was in trials at, at Harvard, I
believe. And it, it cured his mom's brain
cancer. So, you know, I'm like, well,
like how many welly rigs are there out there?
Maybe there's a whole bunch of them and, and devices and
everything. And we should, you know, like I
said earlier, it's like we need to expedite approval of drugs,
Make sure people, you know, if the people are properly informed
of the pros and the cons. And then there also needs to be
some after approval follow up to say like was something approved
that shouldn't have been approved?
And, and, or whether it needs to be additional warnings.
It's pretty common. It's common sense.
I think, you know, just but like when you're dealing with the
government, like common sense is doesn't make sense.
Like, you know, common sense just bounces off the government
like water off ducks back, you know, I mean, it's like arguing
with the DMV. It's impossible.
They did put the COVID vaccine quick.
Yeah, that was weird. And they made everyone take it,
which is messed up. So I don't think people should
be forced to take vaccine unless that that against their will.
Both. Hi, Elon.
My name is Alex Gamble from Lebanon County.
I first want to thank you sincerely for what you're doing.
I I think you're an American patriot.
Thank you. I really do.
I love America. I really do.
I mean, I, I listen, I, I love America and, and like, sometimes
people say like, that's just jingoistic propaganda.
I'm like, I don't care. I love the jingoistic
propaganda. It's awesome.
You know, it's like, God Bless America.
I friggin it's, it's it's amazing.
I agree. Yeah, with with the recent news
from Lancaster County discovering 2500 potentially
fraudulent voter registration forms, what's your opinion on
mail in ballots and if we should get rid of them in the future?
I also, I also want to get rid of them in the future.
I mean, like mail in ballots are a strange anomaly that got
popularized during COVID. But, but really, but like you,
you have an obvious recipe for fraud and, and an inability to
prove fraud. If you've got no ID, no voter ID
and you've got mail in ballots, right?
Like you can't even put a, you can't even like, like, like like
many years ago, a friend of mine was telling me how his, his dad
actually helped improve democracy in Mexico.
And, and it was by organizing a whole bunch of citizens to just
stand outside the the the polling stations or the voting
stations with a counter just to count the number of people that
went in because obviously if you have more votes than people,
something's wrong. Yeah.
And and it turned out they had a lot more votes than people.
They're like, this is a little strange.
So anyway, that that but that that actually helped fix the
situation in Mexico big time. Yeah, but, but, but if you
don't, if you've got mail in ballots, you can't count this.
Like you don't even know what's going on.
I also wanted to ask you a favor.
My my son is named Elon. Really.
He named him after you. Wow, thanks.
He's three. You're an inspiration.
And I was hoping to get an autograph from you to give to
him when he's older. Well, it's the further.
I can't say no to that. I mean, from one Elon to
another, you know, actually, you know, I was actually, I was
named after my American great grandfather.
I guess it's so I'm like kind of the opposite of Obama.
I'm from Africa, named after, named after an American.
So, but yeah, it's Johnny. Alan Haldeman was my my great
grandfather and that's I was named after his middle name.
So I think it was like from Minnesota.
I believe so, yeah. Hey, Elon, my name is Jennifer
Lucas. As you can tell, I do not have a
Pennsylvania accent, but I do live here.
I'm voting legally, I promise. Sure, I believe you.
I'm from southern West Virginia. OK.
And honestly, I've had a lot of questions on my mind, from
education to drug epidemic. It's hit really hard, but one
thing that I would really like to ask you about right now is
lobbyists. If I buy vote, I go to jail.
They buy votes on the floor, on the voting floor in DC, and
that's OK. That is affecting our voice as
American citizens. So what can we do to ban
lobbyists in DC so we can take our power back?
AIPAC OH America Pack. Yeah.
I mean, you know, so I was actually part of making a movie
called Thank You for smoking. I don't know if anyone's seen
that movie, but it's, it's a movie about political corruption
and and lot about lobbyists and political corruption.
I, you know, it's worth watching.
Thank you for smoking. And you know, that was I'm
actually the pilot in the movie in that plane.
So it's a very small role, but that movie explores the there's
the corruption that exists in DC due to all the lobbying that
takes place. And the legislation is primarily
written by lobbyists, in fact. And then, you know, Congress
basically rubber stamps the what what lobbyists, right?
I think, I think we're probably do need to take a look at what
rules make sense because obviously the, the point of the
elected, the legislators is to legislate in the interest of the
people. And so if there's legislation
happening, which is often the case, that is not in the
interest of the people, something's wrong.
So, and you do get these like regulatory capture situations
where the right, you know, the companies in an industry end up
controlling the regulators and preventing new entrants from
coming into a market, making it difficult, you know, for new
companies to come in anyway. You know, I wanted to make that
movie for a reason, which is to highlight that there is a lot of
corruption in DC and like to have less of it.
At least it's tough. And, you know, this is also why
I think the the big government machine is so against Trump
because he, he doesn't, he's not beholden to all of these
interests, you know, So he's, he's not, he's not captured
essentially, he's not a puppet. So the sort of the big
government machine is very worried about electing someone
who's he's not a puppet. So, yeah, I mean, I, I certainly
advocate for, you know, better rules that limit the, the power
of companies to lobby in, in DC or at the state level for that
matter. Yeah, I, I mean, like I for, for
Mars, like people sometimes ask me like, well, what if, what
kind of system of governments do I think makes sense for Mars?
Like I said, well, that's going to be up to the Martians, you
know, But, but, but I would recommend direct democracy, not
representative democracy where the people vote directly.
And you know, in the past, before there was before you had
like the Internet and electronics, you had to have
representative democracy because you couldn't, you couldn't, you
had to, just like with the legacy media, you had to collect
people's opinion by mail or literally by voice or by letters
written with a quill on, you know, and a scroll type of
thing, you know, like slow. So you had to have
representative democracy. You couldn't have direct
democracy. But my recommendation for Mars
would be that the people vote directly for anything and that
any given piece of legislation must be short enough to
understand. So like, if, if it's, you know,
not, not more than 1000 words, maybe 300, the, the longer the
legislation is, the worse it gets.
And, and we've got legislation that's longer than Lord of the
Rings, and they're like, nobody's read it, you know?
Thank you for everything that you're doing.
I see you and I see your heart, and I know that you love
humanity, not just America. I do everything that you do.
It shows you care for everyone deeply.
Thank you for that. Thank you.
I have a lot of ideas and if you want to hear them sometime we
can sit down for dinner. Thank you.
All right, Yeah. Hello, Elon.
My name is Steven Marshall, so I live in Lancaster County.
It's nice to meet you. You once said in a job interview
that when asked what is your biggest weakness, you said
honesty, which I find really interesting.
And the guy said, well, that's not a weakness.
And what I find fascinating is the way you stand up to anybody
and speak your mind. And my question is, there's a
cost of telling the truth. There's a cost of being honest,
yes. And you're not afraid to pay
that? Well, hopefully it's not like,
fatal, you know? Yeah.
And I think that I'm. Wondering like where that came
from in your life because you know, you're an amazing
inspiration with everything. Yeah, I can.
I can totally tell you. So like what it's, I mean, first
of all, you know, like I think I, I,
the reason I believe in sort of truth and honesty is because I'm
like, I'm trying to understand the universe.
I'm trying to understand reality.
You know, we're trying to understand like, what's the
meaning of life? Like, what are we here for?
Like what's, what's going on? And if you don't aspire to to
truth, if you're not like rigorous about truth and
honesty, then you're obviously going to live in a diluted
world. You won't understand, you won't
understand the nature of reality, you won't understand.
So I just, I'm just curious and I want to understand the nature
of reality. So, and that's requires rigorous
adherence to the truth. Also, Ed, thank you.
What I find fascinating, too, is like, you know, for you to stand
up and speak the truth about what you feel about Trump,
There's so many celebrities that the other side has.
And yeah. It's weird that there's so many
celebrities, you know, I'm like, like, what are they?
What's up with that? Yeah, exactly.
You're the you're the only guy with a serious amount of
influence that's able to really stand up for Trump.
And I really think that I know people that are like on the
fence that are going to Trump because of you.
So I think. Right, you are making a massive.
Difference in this election like you single handedly and that's
an amazing legacy amongst all the other things that you do.
So thank you. Well, I, I, I'm trying, I'm
trying my best to, to, you know, I want to, I'm trying to make as
big a difference as possible. And yeah, I mean, I, I do think
like we, we, we're at a, like I said, a fork in the road of
destiny where, you know, like it's.
Yeah, it's not clear to me that that there will be elections
after this if Trump is not elected.
You know, So the, I mean, there's basically, in my
opinion, there's massive voter importation to swing states that
is happening right now. If you look at the actual
numbers as reported by the Democrat administration, there
are triple digit increases in the number of illegals in each
swing state. It's 240% was the number I saw
in Pennsylvania in three years. And like that's, you know, if
the margin of victory is like was 80,000 votes last time,
well, what happens if you bring in like 300,000 illegals who are
beholden to the Democrat machine and to get a whole bunch of
handouts? And that even though they may
socially not be in agreement with the Democrats, their first
order priority is bringing friends and family into the
country, which will be supported by the Democrats but not by the
Republicans. So it's voter importation is
what's going on. And it doesn't take much to have
the swing states be a permanent deep blue.
That's what happened in California.
So like, like I love Reagan, but he did sign in 1986 an amnesty
that, you know, sort of illegal alien amnesty that thereafter
California, which had been red or a swing state, but primarily
red was went blue and then deep blue.
And now California passed a law banning voter ID in any election
whatsoever, even in a town council.
That's what they will do to the whole country.
They the playbook is obvious because we can just look at what
they did in California. They're going to do the same
thing in Pennsylvania, same thing the whole rest of the
country if they can. And Trump is the only chance to
have that not be the case. So, and I'll tell you it's I'll
tell you it's even, it's because people like, I think it's going
to be worse than California. Because the one thing that keeps
California from being even more crazy than it currently is is
that people can move to other States and still be in America.
But what if you can't move to any other states?
It's going to be way worse than California.
So it's profound. Yankees.
Well, sorry. OK, listen, I like the name, OK?
It's a great name. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
What have I done? Hi Elon, my name is David and I
am an founder of an e-commerce company here in Lancaster, PA.
And I appreciate the one thing that you saying about the IRS
being bullying on the American citizens instead of enforcing
our border, we're doing that. And I found one problem being a
business owner is I have been the subject of recent harassment
by the IRS. And I find that being a huge
discouragement to entrepreneurship, which is the
American backbone. Sure.
And I wanted to know what you what would be one of the number
one things you would recommend to the Trump administration
about encouraging entrepreneurship and getting
young people especially encouraged into starting small
businesses to keep our economy, economy flourishing and to keep
creating wonderful things like you have done?
Yeah, Well, I mean, it's really, I think, you know, if we can
just get the government off people's backs, then you can you
can get a tremendous amount done.
And you know, it's like just we're over regulating six ways
to Sunday as you've experienced yourself.
And then even when there's like a little bit of success, then
the government comes along and takes the money.
So it's crazy, you know. So just when, when if the
founders of the country could see like where we are now,
they'd blow their mind, you know, like there was a revolt
against the British. I think it was like a 2% tax on
tea, like say a 3% tax on tea. And like, they were like, no
way. And now it's like, you know,
40%. I mean, it's just like there's
new taxes every day. And there's a lot of hidden
taxes that you experience as a as a small business owner that
people don't even realize exist. You know, you just sort of come
to realize that because the IRS comes after you.
But there's there's a ton of taxes that try to sort of mask
from the consumers. So we just need smaller
government and allow people to produce useful goods and
services for their fellow human beings.
Yeah, it's straightforward. Hi, Elon, My name is Will King.
It's nice to meet you. Welcome to Lancaster.
Thank you. I'm a young mechanical engineer.
I'm excited to work on new problems.
One of my dreams would be a work for one of your companies.
So we'll see where that goes. But question I have is what are
your thoughts on tariffs and how do you see tariffs impacting
consumer spending and or increasing inflation?
And what problems need to be solved for US production to
reach a scale and efficiency that would match current
outsource production? Like obviously it's, it's no
first principle. It's not a first principle
principles problem. We can do it, but what needs to
happen to in order for that to? Well, what are your thoughts on
the subject? So I think what you were, what
you were touching on before a lot of government regulation and
taxes, Well, taxes, you know, I don't know where we need to go
with that, but I think I love your philosophy of surges in
employment and going hardcore. You know, I was reading your
autobiography, the other biography, the.
Other biography, Yeah, Yeah. To be clear, this it's a pretty
good biography, but it's not, it's not actually what I would
have written, right? But what really stood out to me,
I was reading about how you wanted to move the servers from
Twitter up to Is it in Oregon? And well, yeah, actually there
was. Yeah, there were three data
centers, but yeah, only two were needed, right?
And I was being told it would take like nine months to.
Right. And you showed up with your guys
and you're like, hey, let's just do this overnight like
Christmas, so. Yeah, just receive, yeah.
Cutting down some of those regulations and all this crazy
stuff that goes that extends the timeline for a bunch of stuff
would really would really help. And that that work ethic.
I agree with your 80 hour work principle, work week principle
and the hardcore. It's not for everyone.
It's not for everyone, but I think that the principle is
really cool and I think we should bring that culture and
that mindset down to the 40 hour work week or the 50.
I do 50, but you know, work life balance potentially.
But I love where you're taking your companies and it's really
cool to see. Well, thanks.
Thank you. Yeah, go ahead.
Hello Elon. Nice to see you here tonight.
So recently I was reading an article on Medium where a
Italian researcher named Andrea Rossi was able to demonstrate a
new technology that he invented that was able to extend the
range of an electric vehicle. It was a technically like a
quadricycle, so very low power electric vehicle by 4 times.
And after the the full test that it actually increased the
battery life of the electric vehicle.
And obviously, you know, we don't it's only been
demonstrated once. We don't know if this technology
could be replicated, but if it was able to be replicated, would
you be interested in implementing this kind of
technology into your Tesla vehicles and even possibly the
Starship? Well, I, I wish such a thing
were, were, were real, but I do not think that such a thing as
real that there is, you know, every industry has a certain
amount of, of BS, but the, the battery industry, I think might
is a candidate for industry with the most amount of BS.
So it's, it's just, there's like electrochemistry is very
difficult. In fact, one of the ways that I
will test like the intelligence of an AI system is ask it
battery electrochemistry questions and rocket questions
and usually comes back with terrible answers.
So it's, it's, it's extremely difficult to increase the range,
but but the range is already sufficient to fully electrify
everything on Earth. So, you know, Teslas have over
300 miles of range and some of them have like 400 miles of
range. We can actually make it go
further. It's just that that's like an
unnecessary amount of battery for most people because the
amount, the amount of range that you need in a battery is about
the same amount of range that your bladder has essentially.
So if you know, if you start a trip at say 9:00 AM, around
noon, you want to probably hit the restroom, take a break, you
know, have a bite to eat and you know, so you drive for three
hours, maybe 4 hours and then charge the car.
As long as the car is charged by the time you come back from the
bathroom and you know, had lunch or whatever, then it long
distance trips are no problem. So we're already we're already
there at this point. So, yeah, but but there there is
no magical breakthrough the the if other technologies are
discovered over the next few years into the near future,
would you also be willing to step theoretically could
revolutionize electrical vehicles, space travel, you
know, exotic propulsion, exotic energy generation techniques.
Are you interested in researching those and
potentially funding them and contributing to this kind of
research? I do think there is a lot of
technology out there that is not really mainstream that it has
potential, although it's in a very infantile stage.
I think there is potential. I mean, not only, I mean, I'm
both Tesla and SpaceX are desperately interested in
anything that works. We're not like barring the door,
we're like, please, if you've got something that works, tell
us about it. Unfortunately, it's rarely the
case that it actually works is the issue.
So, you know, for a while there, Tesla, I guess we maybe still do
like we're just we'd rate any given, you know, proposed new
technology out of 10 where 10 is is incredible.
And, you know, one is total, total nonsense.
And really nothing got above before.
So it's it's just very difficult to do.
But if if, and I would encourage anyone to say prove me wrong,
please do that. I would like to be proven wrong.
That would be awesome. Yeah.
But just just compete with Tesla.
That sounds like you're if you know, if, if there's a some
technology that has much greater range, I would strongly
recommend. They just kick our ass, you
know? Yeah.
Elon, do you believe that Jesus the Christ is a real person who
was crucified and died and is risen, and that God is Jesus?
What do you mean by a real person?
That he was alive back 2000 years ago.
He was the guy who was crucified.
OK, cool. Yeah, no, I think there's yeah,
I do think that's that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, you get into like these, you know, theocratical debates
of the Trinity and but I thought, you know, but yeah,
yeah, I think it's real. So.
Hi, Elon. That feels very weird to say,
but hi, my name is Chris Michaelson.
I'm a Lancaster County resident. We're really happy to have you
here. Thank you, everybody.
Look, I, like many of us here, feel that the very construct,
the constitution of our country is at stake during this
election. I agree.
I'm a firm believer that those who can should.
And I just want to say thank you for being one of the very few
powerful members outside of the construct who have the balls to
stand up here every day and do what you're doing.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thanks. All right, There's a macho man's
here. Look, President Trump has
announced you or has announced that he will appoint you as the
head of the efficiency Commission, right?
Right. That's obviously a perfect spot
for you, given your historical success running lean and
exceptionally profitable businesses.
One of my big concerns that extends beyond the disarray of
our financial constitution here is the technology attacks that
have happened in our country. 2021, the Colonial Pipeline
ransomware attack. Yeah. 2021, Robin Hood, 7
million users, data stolen, their money held for ransom.
2023, T-Mobile goes down overnight, airport attacks,
airline attacks. Have you spoken to Trump at all
regarding your expertise around cybersecurity?
Are you going to have any involvement there?
If not, do you know who is and do you trust them?
And I have one more question. Well, I definitely I certainly
don't have all the answers here and and I don't I don't want to
tempt fate, but like nobody has successfully hacked SpaceX or
Starlink. They've been every day there are
thousands of attempts to hack Starlink and no one has
succeeded. Again, I don't want to attempt
fate here. So this is not a temp.
I'm not saying to hacker groups out there, please hack Starlink
like please don't hack Starlink, but but thus far there have been
many attempts by individuals and state actors to hack into
Starlink and none of them have been successful.
So track record thus far is pretty good.
No one has successfully hacked into yeah so far so good.
You know, don't want to be complacent or anything.
No one has hacked into the Tesla mothership like the the Tesla
Core database. Many people have tried to hack
into the Tesla core database 0 successes.
Yeah, I, I can certainly say like, now, now government
computers are not super secure because it's the government, you
know, so it's like if you say like, what is an easy thing to
hack, I say, well, government computers are an easy thing to
hack. So it's not good.
No, I agree. That's why I like, I I'm, you
know, I'm like as a hardcore technology guy, I'm saying we
should not have voting machines. We should not have computers
because they're two subjects took to have being hacked by by
and it's like they're subject to being hacked by, you know, and
the people protecting these machines don't understand
technology and and they could easily be bamboozled.
So even with the best of intentions, So.
But it's really hard to bamboozle paper ballots in
person with ID, which is obviously how it should be.
Yeah, we, we've talked about baseball a couple times tonight.
My brother's handicap. Ryan, I love you.
I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight.
He's a White Sox fan and he is. Just wants to know if you would
consider buying them and turning them into a reputable business.
Thank you. But I, I, I'm a technology guy,
so I'm, I'm just, you know, I got to pick my battles here.
So I'm, I'm just, I try to make technologies that people find
useful. So all right.
Hi, Eli. My name is Vladimir.
I'm an entrepreneur from Reading, PA.
I came all the way here to see you because I'm not sure if
you're going to make it to Reading, PA.
I couldn't wait. Thank you so much for your
contributions to the world. Thank you for Tesla, Neurolink,
SpaceX X, everything that you're doing is incredible and thank
you for stepping up with your leadership to once again try to
take our country back. Thank you.
My question to you is regarding artificial intelligence,
probably our greatest invention, hopefully not our last
invention. You were really on the you were
really advocating for basically regulating the advances that
we're making on artificial intelligence.
How long do you think it would be before we actually reach AGI
or artificial general intelligence and artificial
superintelligence? And are you still up for
regulating this amazing invention that we've summoned
here? Yes.
I mean, I do think there should be some regulatory oversight for
AI. So, yeah, I mean, it's I kind of
view regulators as kind of like the referees in a sports game.
You know, if you whether it's baseball, basketball, anything,
any given sport, all the teams want to have referees so that,
you know, the teams don't break the rules and there's fair play.
So I think there there is a sort of a right number of regulators
for any given industry, but there shouldn't be, there
shouldn't be too many or too few.
Now there's basically no regulators in AI right now.
So it's like having a game with no referees.
That's, that's, you know, subject to some bad happening.
So my recommendation would be to have, yeah, to have an AI
Regulatory agency at the federal level.
It should be, you know, not not heavy-handed, it should be, but
there shouldn't be nothing in contrast, in other industries
where there's excess regulation because these regulatory
agencies are just sort of grown over time to the point where
there are too many referees on the field.
I think the sports analogy makes a lot of sense.
Like you want to have enough referees to have a fair game,
but not so many referees that people can't, can't throw a pass
on the football field without hitting a ref.
You know, that's the, that's the situation we got right now.
It's like you're trying to run downfield.
Bam, you're just bumping into refs everywhere.
So that's that, you know, we got to take some corrective action
there. So thank you.
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