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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was elected by Texans to signify them within the Senate, <\/span>not<\/em> to play podcaster with billionaires. Nonetheless, Cruz hosted DOGE bro Elon Musk <\/span>on an episode<\/a> of his podcast \u201cVerdict\u201d to lavish reward on the wealthiest man on the planet, promote bigoted conspiracy theories, make outlandish predictions, and \u2026 talk about sci-fi films.<\/span><\/p>\n 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, <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Cruz hailed<\/a> the multibillionaire for having a greater understanding of presidency than he does.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After Musk went on in regards to the federal authorities being run by computer systems, Cruz stated that it was \u201cfascinating\u201d that Musk is bullying his approach into accessing safe federal information, which he says \u201callow you to uncover a bunch of crap that simply no person knew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Whereas the complete extent of DOGE\u2019s <\/span>possible privacy and security violations<\/a> is just not totally recognized, the group<\/span> <\/span>has repeatedly overstated<\/a> the purported fraud and abuse that has been uncovered by a number of tens of billions of {dollars}.<\/span><\/p>\n Addressing liberals\u2019 criticism of DOGE through the interview with Cruz, Musk<\/span> <\/span>once again claimed<\/a> that they\u2019re simply fearful that he\u2019ll uncover a plot to lure undocumented immigrants with federal advantages to transform them into Democratic voters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That is the debunked Nice Substitute conspiracy idea <\/span>held by white supremacists<\/a>\u2014and is one thing that Musk has reiterated again and again.<\/span><\/p>\n Musk additionally<\/span> <\/span>alleged<\/a>\u2014with no shred of proof\u2014{that a} \u201ccabal\u201d of rich people is behind the<\/span> <\/span>growing protests<\/a> at Tesla dealerships, utilizing language that has traditionally<\/span> <\/span>been favored<\/a> by antisemitic conspiracy theorists.<\/span><\/p>\n When requested about synthetic intelligence know-how, Musk predicted that it’s going to quickly be smarter than \u201cthe neatest human.\u201d And when Cruz requested him to deal with the potential draw back of AI displacing individuals from their jobs,<\/span> <\/span>Musk said<\/a> it was not a serious concern.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cItems and providers will grow to be near free, it\u2019s not as if individuals can be wanting when it comes to items and providers,\u201d Musk responded, including that individuals can have \u201ctens of billions of robots\u201d that \u201cwill make you something or present any service you need for principally subsequent to nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Whereas Musk\u2019s assertion ignores fundamental legal guidelines of physics and provide and demand, it isn\u2019t solely shocking contemplating his historical past of constructing outlandish <\/span>predictions<\/a>, together with the 2014 declare that people would land on Mars. It has been 11 years, and that has nonetheless not occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n Whereas they weren\u2019t spreading conspiracies or speculating a few robot-run future, Musk and Cruz had a<\/span> <\/span>cringeworthy discussion<\/a> of their favourite sci-fi\/fantasy films. Much more bizarrely, Cruz did an impression of Ricardo Montalban as Khan from \u201c<\/span>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n