IHIP News - Donald Trump is Taking a BACK SEAT to President Musk

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

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Welcome to IHIP News. It looks like Donald Trump has been bought, paid for, and purchased by none other than Elon Musk. It is unbelievable what is happening. So Moses Mike Johnson has the budget bill to fund the federal government. Elon Musk, who has zero government experience, goes on a psycho tweeting extravaganza overnight, threatening all of the Republican congressmen, and they all start folding like a cheap suit. Hours later, the president-elect, since a similar truth is social, but his boss, Elon Musk, beat him to the punch.

Well, it's interesting because it's trending on Twitter slash X, President Musk. So the egos are flying, but it is unbelievable to me that someone that has more money than anybody in the world is crafting and vetoing or approving legislation in the federal government, not elected. And here's the deal. I love that Mike Johnson is so fucked on this. It could not happen to a nicer guy. He deserves it. And I'm here for all of it. But here's the thing I was thinking about this this morning. Elon Musk, richest person on the planet. He doesn't give a shit if people, if veterans don't get their checks, if the government is shut down.

As long as his ketamine source is up and running, he's good to go. So he has zero qualms about this. And it's the enablers. But I just I go back to President Musk is trending. When is Trump going to get his feelers hurt that his boss gets more recognition than he does and more airtime? Let's dive into that. So Elon Musk paid $250 million to get Trump elected. Trump was running for president to avoid legal problems, potentially jail incarceration. So does Musk own him? Does he own him? Because Musk is the one that seems to be driving the transition. He seems to be the one that's running the president-elect's policy right

now. Donald Trump is the last one to the party to show up on social media about this budget bill. It's all Musk, Musk, Musk. Imagine for a second if George Soros were parading around with Barack Obama or Joe Biden. Imagine the level five, stage 10 freak out that would ensue on the right. I mean, for years, they've thrown all of these anti-Semitic tropes to George Soros, and they've gone bananas because he funds and donates to a lot of democratic causes. He's never been intricately involved in policy and, you know, palling around with the president elect or president. So I think it's wild.

But remember the other day when I was talking to you about what's going to happen with Donald Trump's base, which tends to be the overtly religious right. Right. Because it seems like he is favoring his new billionaire BFFs. So watch this. Steve Bannon, who's a total nut. I mean, no question about it. But I just thought this was completely interesting because I played a video of him the other day and he was in a different scene and he had all these images of Jesus behind him. Do you remember that? Well, in this video, he's just has some curtains behind him. but listen to what he says here about Moses, Mike. Vote no on this. Make the Democrats pass the whole thing. Help. Johnson's a Democrat. He's a Democrat. He holds the Bible. He's got the New Testament wrapped up tight. He can talk happy talk on a handful of social issues, you know, checking his son's porn site. I don't know

all this crazy nonsense. He does all that. He there he's a big deep christian except when it comes to showing courage and being courageous and maybe bringing people in so it's not a surprise so now the media can sit there with a big old shotgun to your head and go to go oh my gosh no social security checks it's gonna be cold it's gonna be dark for christmas day granny's gonna freeze freeze. Not going to get any mail. No Christmas presents going to go over. CNN's going to have that big camera everywhere. Kids crying. No Santa. NORAD's not going to be able to track Santa on Christmas Eve.

NORAD will not do it. Okay. So isn't it interesting that he is making fun of him for being a total Bible thumper? He sounds like we do. That's what I was going to say. He's saying the same shit we say. Last week on his set pumps, he's sitting there and it's all this Jesus stuff behind him. And here he is browbeating Mike Johnson for being a nut, talking about the porn use. And so the Republican cannibalism is already starting. And I know we were all in just great despair.

We were all like, how can we stomach watching this? And what I have to say to you listeners, get your popcorn ready because let's go. This is a level five shit show. We need to watch it. We need to report on it. The oligarchy is in full swing. Donald Trump, we saw the condition that he was when he was campaigning. He has been pushed to the corner. They have put baby in a corner.

Baby is in a corner. Baby is in a corner, Pops. I love this so much. And I will tell you, when all of this started coming out, it just did put a little pep in my step because I've been really sad. I know. But it's like, oh my gosh, it's happening. They can't govern because they're too crazy. They're too crazy.

Incompetent, yes. Crazy also. Okay. Let me tell you this. So I was watching CNN this morning because I won't watch Morning Joe anymore. Right. And they're covering this, this whole spending bill thing to keep the government funded. And I'm trying to take notes in my iPhone of the Chiron and it keeps changing like every two seconds. I'm not kidding. Somebody,

one of our viewers is going to have to find it. And so originally the Chiron says government shutdown scrapped after Trump takes deal. And then literally five seconds later, they changed Trump to Musk and it keeps going back and forth, back and forth. And as I'm looking at my phone and looking up to type it, I'm like, OK, the mainstream media, corporate media is already being schizophrenic. They don't know how to cover this. It's like, oh, do we placate to Trump or do we placate to Musk? What do we do here? We already know ABC folded like a cheap suit.

Apparently, George Stephanopoulos is matter-of-hell about it, as he should be. Because Donald Trump is already threatening, here's the deal. You are a waste of time. That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, that he's going to sue somebody for a poll. I mean, it's crazy, but here's the deal. He's so litigious. That's how he shuts people up. He's going to start suing everybody. Here's the thing. I just, what I'm waiting for, Musk and Trump getting at odds because as you have correctly pointed out, Musk and Putin are big, big buddies. So Putin to Musk, Musk over Trump. Well, at some point, the self-destructive part of Trump, they're going to have an ego fight like nobody's ever seen. So then what happens?

Unless they have the goods on him. You know, like that's the one component that's out there that makes me curious. Now, Trump doesn't have the discipline. Right. You know, like he will, he, it'll be 3 a. 3am and he'll start cap locking and all of this stuff. But I want to read to you a series of tweets from Senator Chris Murphy. And he says, it's happening in front of our eyes. It's accelerated rapidly in the last 24 hours. Not sure why everyone doesn't see this. Number one, can I take a minute to connect the dots on

how Trump is putting into action a plan to cripple our democracy in a way we may never recover from? Number two, he wasn't kidding when he said Democrats were the number one threat to America and needed to be dealt with by law enforcement and the military. Today, House Republicans' referral of Liz Cheney for criminal prosecution on made-up charges shows you the plan. Number three, who will stand in the way of Cheney and others being put in jail? Not DOJ. Kash Patel was chosen to lead the FBI because he wants to prosecute Trump's opponents. Number four, not every Trump opponent will fold, but many will. If you have a family at home, are you really going to stand up to Trump if there's a chance you could end up in jail? History shows that selective prosecution of regimes' opposition

has a broad chilling effect. Number five, the second part of Trump's plan is to use the White House to destroy the free media. Today's lawsuit against the Des Moines Register, just because they released a poll showing a close race in Iowa is stunning. We shouldn't pretend this is normal. Number six, already you see the big media companies are giving in. ABC paid Trump $15 million even though his defamation suit had no merit. Bezos told the Post not to endorse against Trump. MSNBC is up for sale because Comcast doesn't want to get in trouble. Number seven, sometimes Trump will win these suits because he controls the DOJ in some courts,

but other times he doesn't care. After he lost one case against a journalist, he said, quote, I did it to make his life miserable, which I'm happy about. He gladly admits it's about intimidation. Number eight, Trump has also said he will use the FEC and regulatory agencies, all of which will be run by his blind loyalists to intimidate news orgs. Even if he uses this power rarely, media companies have already shown they are reluctant to put up a fight. Number nine, is there a chance that this is all show and bluster? Maybe. But these developments of just the last few days, ABC's bogus statement, the referral

of Cheney for prosecution, Trump's suit against the register, all point to this being very, very real. Well, he told us he was going to do this and now he is. And then I do think, I find it interesting, the Liz Cheney would probably be my last pick to go after first. And here's why. Cheney has unlimited resources. She was actually a member of Congress when she investigated.

She's going to be able to relitigate the entire January 6th insurrection in the public sphere to prove her defense. So I would have chosen someone with less resources, a lower profile, because I think she's going to be a real tough nut to crack. But do you think they realize that? Is that where you've always said their incompetence will checkmate them. They will checkmate themselves with their own incompetence. You just played the tape through. Are they?

Are they playing the tape through? Probably not. They want it in the news. They're going after enemies and they're already getting so much surrender and he hasn't even taken off. So does that benefit us? Their inability to play the tape through, they go all chips in on Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney lawyers up like nobody's business and it's gun guns blazing.

And then, you know, then you've got Steve Bannon, you know, all of this inner turmoil on the right. That's already starting, you know, Bannon's clearly jealous of Musk's proximity. And they're going to have Musk, who at the end of the day, he wants to beat Putin. He admires that he is arguably, let me say, the richest man in the world, richer than he is. And he holds all of this power. And that's Musk's next frontier. And so when the dumber maggots in Congress start all this stuff like they did with Hunter Biden, they start this with Liz Cheney. Does it spectacularly backfire because they do not have the ability to play the long game in this? They're so short-sighted in the quick news cycle. What I'm counting on as the biggest savior to the country right now is their incompetence. Because all of these things that, you know, mass deportation, that takes an amazing amount of infrastructure, money, organization

between agencies. Same with all these prosecutions. Even if you find someone, let's say all these nuts refer her for prosecution and they start to prosecute her. Even if Kash Patel in his role as FBI director prosecutes her, you've got to convince a judge. And I know he's got judges and it's, you know, the alien cannons of the world are out there. But it's going to be harder and harder and harder for them to achieve the goals they're talking about. And I really do think the safeguard of our democracy is their inability to govern and straight up incompetence. All right, guys, we'll see you later. It's so entertaining. Tap the V.

So good.