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President Biden is SCREWING Elon Musk | HUGE LASHOUT

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well Elon Musk was rejected again

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regarding the Twitter Elon Musk had

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tried to meet with the head of the good

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old FTC this is an organization and

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Twitter has had a long history with back

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in 2011 there was an investigation into

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Twitter about privacy concerns by the

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FTC the Federal Trade Commission and

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apparently Twitter paid a 150 million

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dollar fine that's a massive amount of

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money mind you

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150 million dollar fine over alleged

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violations of a settlement that Twitter

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had with the FTC in 2021 now that

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agreement was expanded to prohibit a

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Twitter from using certain data like

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targeting ads however a former Chief

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security officer at Twitter

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whistleblue Twitter and basically

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brought the FTC right back into

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investigating Twitter now Elon Musk is

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taking a very

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business-like approach which is all

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right look if we've got a problem with

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the FTC let's set up a meeting with the

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head of the FTC and if we set up a

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meeting with the head of the FTC then

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maybe we can get to the bottom of what

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the actual problem is well unfortunately

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the head of the FTC rejected Elon Musk

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from meeting her instead of actually

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providing any kind of communication to

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Elon Musk her response was simply no

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thanks go ahead and comply with our

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regulations and then we'll consider

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meeting with you

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that's because right now the FTC is

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actually taking potential enforcement

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action against Twitter multiple cases

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from the FTC against Twitter to

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investigate their compliance with trade

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laws now what's really interesting over

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at the FTC is the fact that it's become

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a little bit of a hotbed in terms of

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potential polarization and the way to

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potentially look at this is by examining

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the letter from the former commissioner

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of the FTC who resigned at the beginning

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of this month just March 2nd of 2023 the

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previous commissioner of the FTC bailed

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out now this is interesting so let's go

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ahead and put this up on screen here I'm

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not sure how we're going to go ahead and

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particular letter here this is the

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former commission commissioner of the

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FTC and what do they have to say they

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talk about how they're on their third

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tour of Duty at the agency and they

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believe in this agency is The Little

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Engine That Could but unfortunately it

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seems that after the Biden

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Administration took over some things

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started to fall apart at the FTC

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remember this is a Federal Trade

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Commission for example the Trade

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Commission has very particular rules

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such as when I get potentially paid to

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promotion hey look I fixed the spelling

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uh anyway so the FTC here says in uh

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2020 87 of responding employees agreed

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that there are high standards of honesty

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and integrity in 2020 83 percent of FTC

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employees agree that there was a high

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level of respect and in 2020 80 of FTC

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respondents agreed that senior leaders

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generate high levels of motivation and

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commitment in the workforce well

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unfortunately after the Biden

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Administration took over those numbers

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almost halved in 2021 high levels of

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standard and honest standards for

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honesty and integrity fell to 53 and 21

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49 and 22 high level of respect fell

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from 83 percent to 49 and 44 for 2122

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and generating high levels of motivation

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fell from 80 to 42 and 21 and 36 in

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2022. in other words the FTC here is

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making uh or the former FTC chairperson

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or commissioner here is making the

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argument that look whatever happened

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since Joe Biden came in and suggested

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that we were going to sort of minimize

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some of the divisiveness in our culture

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has actually reduced the efficacy of our

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agency's trust in each other if anything

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it's become more divided and at the same

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time less motivated in fact they go as

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far as saying that in 2020 the FTC

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brought 79 consumer protection actions

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but in 2021 that number declined by more

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than half to just 32. the number did

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increase in 2022 to 46 but still well

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below the 79 actions taken in 2020. here

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the commissioner is really arguing the

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FDC is becoming less functional for some

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reason whatever the reason is but as

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soon as the Biden Administration took

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over under that leadership whatever

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happened whether it was the political

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environment whether it was Biden

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Administration nobody knows exactly whom

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to blame but for some reason this

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commissioner is resigning under the

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argument that the FTC is becoming much

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less efficacious in fact they say that

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fraudsters doubled down in 2022 and

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consumers reportedly lost 8.8 billion

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dollars to fraud an increase of more

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than 30 percent from the previous year

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yet the FTC took a fraction of the

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actions that it previously did and as a

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result for the sake of the American

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people Mr President I wish you success

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in the remainder of your tenure and I

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implore you to closely examine the

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developments of the Federal Trade

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Commission to ensure that your vision of

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a return to normalcy is being

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implemented with care this person by the

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way is uh was is not very excited about

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the new commissioner Mrs Khan Mrs Khan

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was appointed by the Biden

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Administration and Mrs Khan is actually

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the individual who rebuffed Elon Musk

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from a meeting suggesting ah well deal

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with the enforcement action first and

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then we'll go ahead and consider any

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kind of commentary from you Mr musk now

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what I think is really interesting about

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this is usually what you find when you

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have an agency investigating uh somebody

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like an Elon Musk you usually have

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bureaucrats who are doing the best

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possible job that they can but they are

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bound by bureaucratic processes and

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entrepreneurs generally don't mesh with

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bureaucrats that is nothing to say that

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bureaucrats are bad people it's not to

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say that entrepreneurs are bad people

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it's just to say it's literally like

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trying to put a square peg in a round

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hole it just does not work entrepreneurs

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look at look what's the problem let's

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figure out how we can solve the problem

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and let's just implement it the next day

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if that means we have to flip-flop if

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that means we have to change our mind if

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that means people have to get fired if

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that means things have to be broken to

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get it right that's what we're going to

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do because ultimately the goal of an

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entrepreneur is to make sure that the

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Enterprise makes as much money and

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provides the best value possible to its

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users the best money is important for

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not only its employees but also its

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shareholders and of course providing the

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best value is important for society

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however of course we do have regulation

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and the role of a bureaucrat is to say

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that well that's fine you can have the

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motivations of providing the most value

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and providing the most shareholder value

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so consumer value and shareholder value

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but we have to do so within the scope of

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our rules and if the scope of our rules

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are ones that suggest you must do things

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a certain way and you must meet our

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check boxes then we're going to continue

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to bug you until you complete our check

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boxes and Elon Musk is trying to

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essentially suggest yeah I'm just going

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to try to go to the commissioner here

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and maybe we can just work this out and

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quite frankly that is very common for an

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entrepreneur an entrepreneur who goes

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and pounds the table at like the city

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building and safety office and says I

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want to talk to the manager usually

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actually doesn't get very far with

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bureaucracies you have to earn your

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respect from the bottom up not from the

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top down which in entrepreneurship you

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get much more sort of a top-down style

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of governance in bureaucracies you have

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to earn it from the bottom up everyone

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at the bottom has to like you for the

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next levels to like you and the next

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levels to like you the next levels to

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like you and it's hard because you

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basically have to please every

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bureaucrat along the way because all it

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takes is one bureaucrat really hating

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your guts and you're screwed right so I

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mean that's just the nature of

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government but uh Elon Musk clearly

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exhibits his frustration over this and

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uh and and so you could see uh

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potentially the the failing of the FTC

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here and really doing anything based on

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what the FTC is suggesting here even

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though they're investigating Twitter is

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it possible that they might get less

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done under this new commissioner whom

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the Biden Administration appointed

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because of the internal strife of the at

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the FTC yes could that sandbag Elon Musk

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even more absolutely and I think that's

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an important takeaway here is that the

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more Elon Musk gets sandbagged by

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Regulators the more risky it is that

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Twitter ends up losing money and the

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more risky it is that Elon Musk ends up

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having to sell Tesla stock to support

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Twitter now keep in mind Elon Musk has

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made a quote-unquote promise he has

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obviously the right to change his mind

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quote unquote promise not to sell Tesla

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stock into a Tesla stock in 2023 I

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personally believe that Elon musk's

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selling of Tesla stock 24 million

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dollars in 2022 was exactly why Tesla

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plummeted to the core of the Earth at

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105 at a low and as soon as we had tax

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loss harvesting in December which

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Amplified that effect along with

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shorting and then that flip-flop of

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short covering along with re-entering in

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in January we've seen a recovery that

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can all change if Elon Musk is forced to

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sell again that's why I personally

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actually am paying attention to what's

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happening with Mrs Khan and the FTC I

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want to pay attention to this mostly

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because I am exposed as a Tesla

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shareholder and so I'm going to watch

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what The Regulators are doing with

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Twitter because unfortunately the nature

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of Regulation is one that does not play

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nice with entrepreneurs Regulators do

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not like people who are Trailblazers

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dare we say when you hear the word

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Trailblazer try not to think of the car

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try to to think of somebody who's doing

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something that that just isn't it

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doesn't have a clear precedent yet to

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some extent crypto is like that with the

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Security and Exchange Commission or even

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the commodity future Trade Commission

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neither agency really knows who has the

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power to regulate crypto and Congress

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isn't going to do anything to suggest

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anything either direction so the only

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way the cftc and the SEC can actually

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get to the bottom of what their role

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should be is by basically asking the

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court systems to decide so it's very

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understandable for the SEC and the

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Commodities future trading commission

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probably to file endless more lawsuits

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for crypto related claims because really

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they're trying to in some extent

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find their place via the judicial system

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telling them what to do and it's

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possible that the FTC will do the same

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thing with Twitter which unfortunately

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becomes very expensive and very painful

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so I think that's something to keep in

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mind as an investor in Tesla keep in

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mind also that uh there were a lot of

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news organizations and and even uh

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um prolific athletes who are suggesting

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they are not going to pay for Elon

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musk's blue check mark for example

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LeBron James suggests he is too cheap to

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pay for the blue check mark but you also

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have other agencies as well suggesting

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this I mean LeBron James though somebody

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who's worth somewhere around a billion

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dollars which makes this pretty

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incredible but beyond that the LA Times

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the New York Times The Washington Post

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BuzzFeed Vox political CNN all those

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agencies by the way lean slightly left

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all of them suggesting no we don't want

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to pay for a blue check mark absolutely

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not we won't pay for a blue check mark

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screw the blue check mark and so it's

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kind of interesting because it's going a

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little counter to elon's plan to to

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monetize Twitter keep in mind also that

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in recent filings uh you've had Elon

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Musk value Twitter at about 20 billion

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dollars Which is less than half of the

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previous 44 billion valuation that

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Twitter had it puts it at about 45 to 46

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percent uh of the valuation my hair is a

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mess right now and I apologize for that

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it's bothering me I'm trying to fix it

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but then again I can't even really see

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it myself who cares and I don't know why

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