Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was elected by Texans to signify them within the Senate, not to play podcaster with billionaires. Nonetheless, Cruz hosted DOGE bro Elon Musk on an episode of his podcast “Verdict” to lavish reward on the wealthiest man on the planet, promote bigoted conspiracy theories, make outlandish predictions, and … talk about sci-fi films.
Cruz has been within the Senate since 2013, and earlier than that he served as solicitor normal of Texas. However, throughout his interview with Musk, Cruz hailed the multibillionaire for having a greater understanding of presidency than he does.
After Musk went on in regards to the federal authorities being run by computer systems, Cruz stated that it was “fascinating” that Musk is bullying his approach into accessing safe federal information, which he says “allow you to uncover a bunch of crap that simply no person knew.”
Whereas the complete extent of DOGE’s possible privacy and security violations is just not totally recognized, the group has repeatedly overstated the purported fraud and abuse that has been uncovered by a number of tens of billions of {dollars}.
Addressing liberals’ criticism of DOGE through the interview with Cruz, Musk once again claimed that they’re simply fearful that he’ll uncover a plot to lure undocumented immigrants with federal advantages to transform them into Democratic voters.
That is the debunked Nice Substitute conspiracy idea held by white supremacists—and is one thing that Musk has reiterated again and again.
Musk additionally alleged—with no shred of proof—{that a} “cabal” of rich people is behind the growing protests at Tesla dealerships, utilizing language that has traditionally been favored by antisemitic conspiracy theorists.
When requested about synthetic intelligence know-how, Musk predicted that it’s going to quickly be smarter than “the neatest human.” And when Cruz requested him to deal with the potential draw back of AI displacing individuals from their jobs, Musk said it was not a serious concern.
“Items and providers will grow to be near free, it’s not as if individuals can be wanting when it comes to items and providers,” Musk responded, including that individuals can have “tens of billions of robots” that “will make you something or present any service you need for principally subsequent to nothing.”
Whereas Musk’s assertion ignores fundamental legal guidelines of physics and provide and demand, it isn’t solely shocking contemplating his historical past of constructing outlandish predictions, together with the 2014 declare that people would land on Mars. It has been 11 years, and that has nonetheless not occurred.
Whereas they weren’t spreading conspiracies or speculating a few robot-run future, Musk and Cruz had a cringeworthy discussion of their favourite sci-fi/fantasy films. Much more bizarrely, Cruz did an impression of Ricardo Montalban as Khan from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”
President Donald Trump has empowered Musk to assault a number of authorities companies on his behalf, whereas Cruz and fellow GOP senators have seemed the opposite approach.
Cruz’s interview with Musk is a reminder that neither of them care about doing their jobs—or the American individuals, for that matter.
