Listening to Elon Musk lie is a waste of time, but you do want to hear this young voter ask him the question about DOGE *stimulus* checks because her question points up the real problem in this country. And that is that people believe the tallest fish tales without hestitation. We can rehash for the nth time the failing of the educational system and the abrogation of the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting. And those are two major reasons we’re in the mess that we’re in, yes. But in this era there is another dimension I don’t think we’ve ever seen before, which is that people choose to believe the utterly preposterous without bothing to say: “Wait a minute. If it’s too good to be true, maybe it is.”
Trump plays on these people with his wishful thinking and Musk is Trumpian lies on steroids. So bear all that in mind as you listen to this question from the audience in Wisconsin where Musk went to speak on the topic of the state supreme court election. This is textbook delusion.
These rubes still think they are getting checks in the mail because of Musk. This is how someone like Trump gets elected – people will believe any promise if they are made by convincing liars, regardless of overwhelming evidence that they are habitual frauds. https://t.co/zRA9C6QMAR
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 31, 2025
I can tell you exactly when those checks will be cut. That will happen on the 12th of Never and that’s a long long time. But you see the damage here, this unfounded believe that “billions” in fraud have been found and nothing has been found.
Brendan Duke, senior director for Federal Budget Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, previously told Newsweek: “The only way we are going to see a DOGE dividend at current course and speed is Congress pretending fake savings are real savings and enacting a deficit-financed tax cut on top of the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts they are considering as part of the extending the 2017 tax law.”
Lance Roberts, chief investment strategist and economist at RIA Advisors, previously told Newsweek: “If you increase demand, without a subsequent increase in supply, inflation is the result. A tax credit would be more beneficial in helping the bottom 50 percent of income taxpayers that pay little or no taxes (they get a refund) but won’t create as big of a demand surge.”
Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, previously told Newsweek: “Even with the potential savings of recent cuts, stimulus checks are an incredibly expensive endeavor for a government already deeply in debt and facing no pandemic-level emergency to undertake. I would expect legislators will hold out hope of new proposals like tax cuts and less restrictions on some government benefit programs as a way to steer eyes away from stimulus checks being the sole way to help Americans.”
The woman who asked the question identified as being 26 years old. I wish we knew where she gets her news and information. I’m told young people get information on Instagram and maybe that’s the problem. Instagram is a hot bed of fantasy and disinformation on a lot of subjects.
I am also hoping that there will be some congressional bill in the not too distant future which will aim at truth in broadcasting. The fact that Musk has found no waste, fraud or abuse, let alone $130 billion since January, needs to be a screaming headline and chyrons need to play it all day long until people get it.
I also wonder, finally, how far off the rails this country has to go before people will realize the extent to which they have been lied to and be willing to demand accountability and truth. Or, maybe that can’t happen. Maybe P.T. Barnum was right when he said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public,” and maybe that’s what why we’re doomed.
The only thing I take comfort in is that only 1.5% of the people made this shitshow possible. America is split clean in two right now.
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Yeah, the stimulus checks will arrive about the time that hell freezes over and cracks.
You can’t belong, much less run this demonic cult without being a liar. There’s a decade of receipts.
Notice he said Congress will have to approve too. That’s his out right there. “Oh the mean ole democrats won’t even bring it up to vote on it. They don’t want you to have that money”.