Some More News - Even More News: Elon Musk Paying People $1 Million To Vote Is Bribery... Right?

Episode Date: March 31, 2025

Hi. On today’s episode of Monday News, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan talk about how Elon Musk is trying to buy the election in Wisconsin, Vance’s four-hour tour to Greenland, Trump’s threatening to bomb Iran, and RFK Jr’s continued war on our health and even more bad news.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, hello, good morning and welcome back to even more news Monday edition. Welcome to it. I'm Cody, that was Katie, and this is the morning news of your favorite day of the week, Monday. Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. Hey everybody, how's it going? Jonathan's also here. Hi, good morning to all of you listening at earliest 3 p.m.

I know, but maybe you're waking up. We've gotta have some listeners that this is their morning when they get it in the evening. But I need to stress that it is morning while we're recording because it feels like it's morning to us. What are we talking about? Who can we talk about? So Elon Musk, that guy, has been in...

The inventor? The great state of Wisconsin. Yeah, inventor, innovator, Iron Man Elon Musk, was in Wisconsin this morning. That guy has been in the inventor a great state of Wisconsin. Yeah inventor innovator Iron Man Elon Musk Was in Wisconsin this weekend to try to let me see if I can use delicate words here bribe people to vote for a conservative Supreme Court candidate or Or, or if you prefer, not bribe, as the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, which is controlled four to three by liberal justices, declined to take the attorney general's case,

saying he can't pay people a million dollars to entice them to vote. Let's read this tweet of his that he deleted, actually, to make clear what he's doing. On Sunday night, I will give a talk in Wisconsin. Entrance is limited to those who have voted in the Supreme Court election. I will also personally hand over two checks

for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote. This is super important. He has since deleted that. That's good of him. So that's good. Maybe he knows that maybe what he's doing is really, really blatantly illegal, but maybe he doesn't. Did he replace that with a tweet

that said the same stuff, but for people who have signed the petition, opposing activist judges? Is that correct? I believe he changed it slightly. Yes. Okay. To clarify, oh yeah, so the new tweet, on Sunday night, I will give a talk in Wisconsin. To clarify, a previous post entrance is limited to those who have signed the petition in opposition to activist judges. I hate how good you're getting at his voice, Cody. It's not, okay.

It's fine. It is not okay. It's okay. Why is he doing it? I know the answer. Well, it feels like this is an element that doesn't get talked about as much, but apparently there's an old law in Wisconsin that does not allow automakers to also have dealerships in the state.

Something to that effect. Oh, I mean, oh yeah. We've got the entire auto industry is built on the in this like we can't there's no like there's very little like direct selling like auto dealership auto dealership shouldn't really exist. But this is a case that will be going to the Supreme Court in Wisconsin. So I don't know, just put that in your brains and marinate on it. Yeah, Tesla is suing to open its dealerships in Wisconsin, but he doesn't it's not about that It's this is about the future of Western civilization. Don't you know?

Anything that Elon how it pertains to auto dealerships. Yeah. Yeah, it's important for the future of civilization Anyway, if you live in Wisconsin Please go and vote on Tuesday for Susan Crawford, not Brad Schimel. This is a, whoever wins swings the balance of the state Supreme Court, which deals with redistricting cases, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Very important if you think voting will still be important

in several years, which it may be. This judge, the bad one, is like all about restricting abortion access, making it illegal. He's not somebody you want. We can't give you a million dollars. We can't. I'm so sorry, but you should still go out and vote. What an appalling piece of garbage this person is. I cannot believe how blatant and just, he was on last night in Wisconsin for this little thing

and somebody heckled him and he's like, oh, Soros is here, say hi to George for me. Bro, you're paying people a million dollars to vote. What do you, you can't do that. I mean, he can do whatever he wants, obviously, but it is just like- And like, also, his jokes were not landing with even the people that like him. Like, the whole crowd is like-

But comedy's illegal. Roaning and booing. Maybe a couple people are laughing. It's very painfully embarrassing. I mean, he knows that they would be losing their mind if it was George Soros. And George Soros is like 94. And if what you're doing, Elon Musk, is very effective by paying people and getting people very excited with money, why wouldn't he do that?

Why would he do the apparently unsuccessful thing of paying people to heckle you? Right? unsuccessful thing of paying people to heckle you, right? Like if it's so pathetic and it won't work, why wouldn't he hand out millions of dollars to people? The, I hate the guy, I hate this guy. It's frustrating. It's very, very frustrating. So speaking of how frustrating he is as a human being

and a liar. He did a little interview recently with Brett Beyer, Bear. Oh, your favorite. Brett Bear. I don't know if anyone else has seen, because they posted on X, obviously. I assume that was a requirement. And I'm sorry, Twitter.

Twitter, I was like, honestly, I was a little offended, Cody, did you see my face? I was like, I'm so sorry. Honestly, I was a little offended, Cody. Did you see my face? I was like, no. I understand. But he did this interview with himself and then with along with the Doge team. Big Balls was not there, sorry folks. Too bad.

If you've been on X, you've seen everybody, quote tweet this with something along the lines of, if you are skeptical of Doge, watch this. This changed my mind. This is like a master class in interviewing. What an informative interview. Brett Beier deserves a Pulitzer, is more or less what I've seen.

That I believe was Benny Johnson, of course. So to start this, Katie, we're gonna show you this clip. In the beginning of the interview, he's like talking obviously about the fraud and the waste and the abuse we've caught already. It's incredible. Obviously, there's not been anybody charged with fraud, so skeptical still on that claim. Citation needed.

I saw this video of somebody basically pointing out there's been no fraud, no abuse, no waste proven by them. And all the comments, one particular comment was like, watch the next 30 seconds, idiot. Like you're just like, you're clipping this out of context. Watch the next 30 seconds. So we're gonna watch the next 30 seconds of the very first claim he made about all the fraud

and waste and abuse they've found. We routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more, casually. For example, the simple survey that was, literally a 10 question survey that you could do with Survey Monkey, you could cost you about $10,000, the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that. For just a survey? A billion dollars for a simple online survey,

do you like the national park? And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey. So the survey would just go into nothing. It was like a tank. Katie, I guess I have a question for you. Do you believe that the Department of the Interior, whose budget is a little over $3 billion,

spent a third of that budget on a single 10 question survey. I don't, I don't believe that. You don't believe that? Even a hot second. Wait. I don't. Do you think these lying?

Do you think maybe actually the department, no, go. And one thing that I'm known for is being pretty gullible. Like you could say, Katie, there's a spider in your face and I'm looking at my face and I'd be like, what? Well, there is. No, Katie, there is, yeah. What? Yeah.

Yeah. I rest my case. No, I don't believe him. And yet you don't believe this. Probably because it's the most obvious lie I think maybe he's ever told. A billion dollars. Yeah, no.

How much does one of those surveys cost, Michael? It can't be more than a billion dollars. They oversee, it's an in-house consulting group for federal agencies, and they have $830 million in many contracts. In total government contracts across the. Total government contracts across all of these agencies. Some of it is for surveys.

It appears that the survey portion was about $5 million a year, not one, but like the survey aspect. For all the surveys. For all of them, it appears. It wasn't a billion dollars for one survey. It wasn't a million dollars for one survey. It was $830 million for an in-house consulting group

for all agencies, and a small portion of that was used for multiple surveys. So this is like saying, all agencies and a small portion of that was used for multiple surveys. So this is like saying, can you believe we have to pay Jonathan annual salary for sending an email? He sent one email to someone at this other place and we had to pay him?

And Jonathan, I will say, since you brought it up, we are gonna need more from you. We need a second email. You. We need a second email. You need to write a second email. No, I think just one email per year is a job to me. Nevermind, that's the- No, it's a gibberish, egregious lie that he like barely gets out.

And I don't wanna like go after him for like not being the most articulate, not being the most polished communicator. He's a terrible communicator, it's fine. It's fine to say. But like, not being the most polished communicator. But like, this is the thing that's like, this is gonna convince people? I don't think, I mean, I'm sure people watch this and it was like, oh my God, we're doing that, it's so much government waste.

Did Brett B ask in this interview, how will this money be redistributed as savings to the American people? Did he ask that? Oh, Jonathan, no. No? When are we all getting our thousands of dollars extra? No, no, he asked Elon, how does he get to sleep at night? Oh, he works so hard. He works so hard.

Melatonin and a cup of sleepy time tea. Pulitzer Prize magic from Brett B. No, of course not. We're not getting any of that money. They're not gonna send out $5,000 checks to everybody. The Doge counter they have on doge.com or whatever it is, is all lies. It's all fake. Why would you start with the most obvious lie?

I mean, probably because he's confident in being able to do that, but it's absurd. Bunch of credulous rubes, fucking idiots. But, you know, we are being kind of mean to Elon Musk right now, which is, I don't know if you know this, an evil, creepy jerk thing to do. If you wanna watch this clip of him talking about Tim Walls.

I would like to see him almost cry. I would like to see him. For context, he's talking about Tim Walls being on stage at some point, holding up a phone and saying, hey, have you seen the Tesla stock price? Chuckle, chuckle, the stock price is going down. That's it. Here's what he has to say about that.

Does that help Tesla? I mean, you had Tim Waltz, who's a huge jerk, running around on stage with a Tesla stock price where the stock price had gone in half. And he was overjoyed. What an evil thing to do. What a creep. What a jerk.

Like, who derives joy from that? Who would? All of us, the rest of the world does. No, who could possibly derive joy from running around on stage, waving something around that indicates that people are suffering and being punished for perceived slights against the person waving the thing around.

But like, it looks like he's gonna cry here. He's so upset. He's a very emotional person. He's so upset that one of his opponents, his political opponent essentially, is doing politics toward him. Yeah, he's a little baby. One of the things that scares me

about ever going into politics is that I don't think I have a thick enough skin. Are you planning to go into politics? No, I'm not, but sometimes, every so often it's like run for office and you're like, yeah, I wish, get more people in there. It's a terrible, terrifying, terrible sounding experience. It's terrible.

He deserves all the shit that's coming at him, but also just, okay, you're the most powerful man in this country, in the world, richest man. You're taking a chainsaw to everything. Sorry, someone's excited that your stock prices are falling. Get some thick skin before you go on national TV. Yeah, what he's doing, and he does this a couple times. It's manipulative. It's very manipulative. before you go on national TV. Yeah, what he's doing, and he does this a couple times.

It's very manipulative. It's what Vance would probably call, like, you know, school marm, emotional manipulation, if it were anybody else talking about it. And he does this multiple times during the interview in various aspects, is he's begging everybody and pleading with us to show a little empathy. And I don't know I

Don't subscribe to this suicidal empathy that's destroying the West So I'm not gonna give that to him. It's absurd he thinks empathy is bad and a weakness and If you ask for it and bring it up and bring up compassion or anything He thinks it's stupid and weak and bad and evil probably. Well, he said in that interview, he's like, empathy is good. You should have empathy, but also you shouldn't just have empathy for a person. You should have empathy for civilization and what we're doing is civilizational suicide. And obviously he stops short of saying the 14 words, but that is what he means.

Western civilization, we know exactly what he means. The birth rates are falling and that's horrifying, but the birth rates in America are falling the most. Like he means a very specific thing. I don't know why he doesn't just say it because he- He could get away with it. He might as well. He might as well. He might as well.

He's got away with doing two sigiles. He's a lying little baby. He also, it's just so absurd. In the interview when he's talking about how hurt he is, his feelings, I'm just, everyone's so evil against me. He said that, you know, they still call me Stalin, Mussolini, Genghis Khan or whatever. They called Trump all these things.

At one point, a magazine cover said Trump was worse than Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin combined. I think that's not true. I don't think a magazine did that. I think there have been people who called him a fascist and have made comparisons of that nature. I don't think a magazine cover said that Trump was worse than Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin combined. Did Vanity Fair do a ranking system of how bad each dictator was and then combined them and put, well, Trump's here over 120 evils. I don't think they did that. I don't think that happened.

I don't remember. I think that's another one of his famous lies that he just spews constantly. It's all just very, very absurd and we can move on, but I do think there's one other part of this interview that is like the telling part. This is the because it's all bullshit. He's lying. He does all this stuff. He's whining. Oh, my God, my empire is crumbling. But this 20 seconds or five seconds is, I think, chilling and the signal amidst all the noise. The people pushing the propaganda that that caused that guy to do it. Those are the real villains here.

And we're going to go after them. And the president's made it clear we're going to go after them. The ones providing the money, the ones pushing the lies and propaganda, we're going after them. That's scary. Right? It is very scary.

And he is the one providing the money and pushing the lies and the propaganda. Just gonna state that. Yeah, obviously. You're bribing people with a million dollars. But that's not what he's talking about here. He's not talking about himself. No. He's talking about whomever, whether it be like, oh, the Soros, Soros funding

it or just I assume he's talking about anybody organizing a protest, not like, oh my God, the nefarious. No, he's talking about just organizers of protests. And he's also talking when he says the propaganda and the lies, he's talking about anybody criticizing him. Yeah, who is the arbiter of these lies? Who says what's propaganda? If somebody says, oh, your dad owned part of an emerald mine, is he gonna say, well, that's a lie, that's propaganda? He said it in an interview. He's bragged about it before.

If he's the arbiter of the lies and what's propaganda and what's not, it's anything. And if the administration, not him him which is like another thing the Administration is going to go after you that is fucked up Because if there's one thing that Donald Trump likes doing It's going after people who whip others up into a frenzy and maybe encourage them to do something violent. You know, you've got to hold those people accountable as well. They're just as responsible for the violence as the people who are doing it themselves.

Of course, the protests are just protests and no one's encouraging any violence towards Teslas or Tesla dealerships. And the president in 2021 did directly encourage people to go and fight and take back our country and used very kind of delicate language in a way that... So if you get arrested at like a protest, we just assume that Trump's gonna pardon you, right? Mm-hmm.

Oh yeah. If you're like breaking in somewhere or like shouting to like hang the vice president, then that's chill. Yeah, I think you should just start screaming, I did this for Trump, viva la Trump. If you are at, and they'll be, oh, that person was very confused, you thought he was doing it for me, okay, pardon.

But other things are good, right? What else is happening that's not bad or scary at all? Well, we've got some international intrigue. JD Vance, the vice president, of course, was in Greenland over the weekend, standing by himself in a ice field. Thrilled to have him. People in Greenland are not thrilled

at the prospect of joining the United States. Six percent of people in Greenland said they'd be okay with joining the United States. I'm just going to interject to say that I knew it was a low number, but when you said that before we started recording that it was six percent, it's just... Yeah. I did think it was more like 15 to 20 or something. It is slightly more popular in the United States since we would not be the ones being conquered

but it is still very unpopular. 70% of Americans don't think the US should take control of Greenland compared to 26% of people who do. That's the number, that's Trump's magic number. And we're gonna play a Jesse Waters clip about this but just connected in the international intrigue is Trump kind of casually threatening to bomb Iran if they don't get a good deal in place. So there's a that. We love our anti-war president. We love it. Yeah, we do.

It's such a farce. First of all, great job, JD, for the trip to Greenland. It lasted a long time. It was like a really, really big long trip that everybody welcomed him for. It was four hours. He was there for four hours. What a waste of everybody's time. Wow, really?

Yeah, it was four hours. I thought he was there longer than that. No. So expensive for four hours anyway. What an absurd situation. And then he gave this speech, this weird speech about, not this weird speech, we're gonna give a trillion dollars to our military.

And he kept using this phrase, when we go to war, when you have to send you to war, if we have to send you to war, and God forbid if we ever send you to war, he said send to war so many times in the span of like a minute. I would appreciate if any, literally any reporter, anybody just like ask him, in what scenario would you go to war?

Because you're so against the war and you think that all the wars are bad and you think it's a tragedy, all these wars, but you talk about it all the time and you talk about freedom seeds. So like what scenarios are acceptable war scenarios for you? Obviously, if no Iran deal, we're gonna bomb them. Or as we see with Greenland,

as Jesse Waters is about to say, maybe this is a situation. And being friendly to the world is what got us in this mess. We're not in high school. We don't need friends. Every country puts their interests first. And when our interests align, we can do business.

And when they don't, that's life. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland, we're big boys. We dropped A-bombs on Japan, and now they're our top ally in the Pacific. We may have to burn a bridge to build a big, beautiful new one to the next generation. America's not handcuffed by history. Trump knows what we need to do to make this century America's century. And he's tapping young talent like JD, Hegseth, and Leavitt to keep Manifest Destiny alive. Manifest Destiny!

Oh, disgusting. Genuinely chilling. Genuinely chilling to see this kind of rhetoric normalized. Like so what, we dropped the A bomb, but now they're allies. So we have to burn some bridges. No, these, you are ruining relationships with countries with places that have always been our allies. You are creating unrest where there doesn't need to be,

it's wild. I was waiting for him to drop Manifest Destiny. I probably see it there. Was Manifest Destiny about taking a gland in Europe? Was that what Manifest Destiny was about? I thought it was about- It was about dropping palms and taking a gland. Not that this was okay, but wasn't it about

expanding to the Pacific Ocean? Yes, it was. Also, he doesn't make any other argument for taking Greenland. There's supposedly this security argument that I'm not quite clear on I don't understand it either. I was hoping that you would have an answer for me today No, it's like what is it? What's the rhetoric you say that we need it is like they're saying we need Greenland for the answer is

Climate change There are two things over the way of lots of minerals there The answer is climate change. There are two things over the weekend. They have lots of minerals there? Yeah, it's minerals and it's just more land and it is preparing for the coming climate disaster as we all are familiar with Greenland is ice and Iceland is green. Thought that was a big hoax though. Oh it's all hoaxes. It's all hoaxes from top to bottom. There are two things said over the weekend Trump is talking about

in Greenland. If you notice also some of those you could call them roadways okay they're water roadways but some of those areas are opening up and they're opening up icebreakers out there. They're opening up and by just nature, they're opening up and they're headed right into China, right into Russia. But he slips in this thing about how and, you know, they have these icebreakers and in some cases it's natural. It's happening naturally, is what he says. What's happening naturally is the warming of the planet.

Right, breaking up icebergs. He's referring to naturally the planet getting warmer. Similarly, based Mike Lee, a congressman, adult man, based Mike Lee, shared a picture of Greenland and said something along the lines of, make Greenland green again. Use CO2 said something along the lines of Make Greenland green again use co2 something along those lines unbelievable. It's about the warming of the planet and Capitalizing on

resources and land What is going on Peterson saying that that's not what co2 does Right. I've had to watch so many clips of him saying, well, that's not what CO2 does. If you actually look at a concentration of CO2 in the landscape, we've actually had less than there's ever been before, right? Now you're good at that impression. Come on, guys.

That's just how it is. Yeah, it's absurd. They're leaning into that. They're like dipping their toe in, dipping the toe in the water roadway, if you will. The water roadway. The water roadway, if you will. The water roadway. The water roadway's fine, everyone, jump in.

God, and so it's very clear, like, you know, like, oh, naturally, it's like the ice is breaking up. Why? That is, he's been told that this is real, and he believes it's why he made a sea wall at his golf course, because he knows that it's real, but he's part of this faction that has to pretend it's a hoax or it's not manmade or whatever it is,

but they know, and that's why they want Greenland. It seems also like it's a silly little thing that they can do their cosplay militarism and spread their freedom seeds. It's this constant contradiction that they all have with all of these issues. It was present, we're not going to watch it. We're not going to go talk about Doge more.

But for this moment, in that interview with Doge, Elon was talking about how actually we're saving Social Security. We're saving it all. In true fact, in true fact, actually, recipients of Social Security will receive more than they're used to. And we're getting rid of the fraud in the way. So you're actually going to get more Social Security if we do what we want. But actually, two weeks ago, that same man was on Joe Rogan, telling Joe Rogan that Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme ever in history.

So if you think it's the biggest Ponzi scheme ever in history, but you're also saying your benefits are going to be better, we're going to save it. Those don't work together. Those don't mesh. Those are two competing worldviews. It's all a farce. It's absurd.

They're liars. Nothing they say or do is consistent with their purported politics. It's maddening. I want to try to rush through, just mention a few things before we wrap stuff up today. Of course, this conversation came along with Trump threatening to bomb Iran if they don't comply with, you know, rules for nuclear problems.

Well, you gotta bomb Iran, come on. But also just not for nothing. We all remember, we're all old enough to remember when he wanted to dismantle the Iran nuclear talks almost exclusively because Obama started them and that was an achievement of his. We should convince him that Obama bombed Iran and then he'll be like, well, then I can't do it.

Then I can't do it. That sounds bad now. I mean, we could say Biden bombed all these places. Biden bombed Yemen. Biden. Yeah. He'd be like, you're right, we could say like Biden bombed all these places. Biden bombed Yemen. Biden. So he'd be like, you're right, we should stop doing that, yeah. RFK Jr. ousting the top vaccine official from the FDA.

This is a wild, upsetting story that we're watching. This is of course comes along with the measles outbreaks in multiple locations, New Mexico, Texas, here where I live, measles outbreak. And vitamin A poisoning showing up in these children because he's out there saying vitamin A is a viable treatment for the measles and now they're in the hospital for the measles

and also toxicity from vitamin A. The vaccine official who quote unquote resigned, he wrote in his resignation, he said, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies. Terrifying, absolutely fucking terrifying. But yeah, all this vitamin A stuff and just every, as this person wrote, like, yeah, you want subservience to

the world view that you have brought in here. And it's just it's just like frustrating quackery and it is, yes, it is quite terrifying. Trump keeps floating the idea of a third term. That's a fun one. He does do that. Not sure how he would actually, but he literally says, and I'm not joking this time. That's quite terrifying. Trump keeps floating the idea of a third term. That's a fun one. He does do that. Not sure how he would actually, but he literally says, and I'm not joking this time, we'll

see. We'll see. It's too soon to tell, but I'm not joking. There are ways that we can achieve that. It's just, it's too much. It's all too much. Everything that happens over the past couple months, everything that has happened,

everything he says these ghouls say, I think about during the election and the campaign, when every time we freaked out about some random comment, they're like, you can't take him at his word for that. Obviously he doesn't mean that. It's just the word salad, people jumping through hoops to justify what was said, and it's happening.

They can be like, oh, they're triggered from Trump. And it's like, are you not? Should you not be concerned? I have a couple quick things to say about this. So first of all, when Steve Bannon referenced this a few weeks ago, he was saying, oh, we're working on it. We've got some ideas.

You know, it all depends on how you define term limits. And the phrase term limits is not in the 22nd Amendment. So I don't know why parsing that phrase would mean anything. What it says in the 22nd Amendment is no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. If I were going to try to get elected for a third term, I would go the route where JD Vance runs for president and Trump is his running mate, and then you pressure Vance to immediately step down upon winning because it doesn't say no person shall serve more

than eight years as president or anything like that. It says no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. Now you might say, Jonathan, that the 12th Amendment says that nobody ineligible to be president can serve as vice president. But again, it just says no person shall be elected. It doesn't say Trump is ineligible to be president. Not trying to give them any ideas, but that's my... I'm gonna predict right now that that's what they try to do, which is the same thing that Putin did.

If this is what they do, we can all blame Jonathan. Well, they're on top of this. These people aren't idiots. I don't know that they are, Jonathan. Well, they're also gonna release all the evidence that 2020 was stolen. They've got evidence is the claim and they're going to release all of it. I'm sure very much like the Epstein files. So technically he's already in his third term.

Right. So we so clearly it's fine. You can do a fourth. Right. Doesn't that sound like a like a Democrat thing on Facebook like he if they prove he the 2020 election was stolen Then he's already been elected more than twice and he is now officially ineligible and must be immediately kicked out of office Right president occupied Democrats share this far and wide it's gonna happen. This is a thing that'll happen All right, guys. All right, guys, we're wrapping this up.

Our editor has to get started so that we can actually release this today. I think we covered a lot of territory, though. Thank you to you, thank you to you, thank you to our editor, Nick, thank you to Moana, and thank you to you, beautiful folks at home. Trying a new catchphrase. It's quite good.

It's good. You know, we love our catchphrases. You know, the process of so much.