June 5, 2025

Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump !! They Go Nuclear: Space Threats, Epstein Files Bombs, and $150 Billion Vanished

Show Notes
Transcript

The bromance is dead, the knives are out, and four astronauts might be collateral damage. Donald Trump and Elon Musk just had the most expensive Twitter spat in history—complete with threats to cancel government contracts, wipe out Tesla’s market cap, and even strand astronauts in space. Elon dragged Epstein files into it. Trump threatened deportation. Stephen Bannon is sharpening pitchforks. And Kanye? Well, he's begging for a ceasefire. Strap in—this episode has everything: ego, drama, market crashes, and flamethrowers. Literally. Oh, our lawyers want to remind you the commentary on this show is parody.

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Callaroga Shark Media from Washington, d C. Where you can

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just pass me the popcorn. This is ballot no QUIPI

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So the bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has

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officially gone from power couple to messy divorce, and honestly,

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it happened faster than a tesla going from zero to sixty.

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These two billionaires spent Thursday having what can only be

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described as the world's most expensive Twitter fight. And when

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I say expensive, I mean Musk through two hundred and

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fifty million dollars at Trump's campaign, which is either the

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most generous political donation in history or the world's worst

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investment strategy. The whole thing started over some domestic policy bill,

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but quickly escalated into a full blown ego battle about

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who deserves more credit for Trump's election victory. You know

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things have gotten personal when they're arguing about whether Musk

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should have used concealer to cover up his black eye

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during an Oval office visit. I mean, that's not political strategy,

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that's just basic makeup advice. Trump never wont to hold back,

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called Musk very disappointing while meeting with Germany's new chancellor. Meanwhile,

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Musk fired back on X, claiming without me, Trump would

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have lost the election, which is a bold statement from

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a guy who bought Twitter and somehow made it less

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popular than a root canal. Let me attempt to catch

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everyone up. We're witnessing what might be the most expensive

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breakup in political history, complete with threats, stock market crashes,

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and Stephen Bannon calling for deportation proceedings, just your typical

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Thursday in Washington. The whole drama started when Elon Musk

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decided he didn't like Trump's domestic policy bill, calling it

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a disgusting abomination, which, coming from the guy who paid

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forty four billion dollars for Twitter and then renamed it X,

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is saying something about questionable decision making. But this quickly

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as escalated from policy disagreement to full scale billionaire warfare.

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Trump fired back by threatening to cancel all of Musk's

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government contracts. We're talking three billion dollars across nearly one

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hundred different contracts with seventeen federal agencies. That's not just

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pulling funding, that's essentially trying to ground SpaceX and Park

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Tesla in the garage. Musk, never want to back down

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from a fight, responded by threatening to decommission Dragon spacecraft immediately,

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which would be like threatening to strand four astronauts at

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the International Space Station just to prove a point. Nothing says,

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I'm the mature one in this relationship, like using astronauts

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is leverage in your Twitter beef. The markets, meanwhile, took

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one look at this situation and basically said nope. Tesla

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stock plummeted fourteen percent, wiping out one hundred and fifty

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billion dollars in market value. That's more money than most

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countries' entire GDP gone because two billionaires couldn't agree on

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spending bills. But wait, it gets worse. Musk then decided

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to bring up the Epstein files, suggesting Trump's name appears

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in them and that's why they haven't been released, which

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is like bringing a flamethrower to a food fight, completely

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unnecessary and guaranteed to make everything worse. Stephen Bannon, who

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apparently has been waiting for this moment like a political vulture,

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immediately swooped in to advise Trump to investigate Musk's immigration

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status and potentially deport him. Yes, we've reached the point

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where former presidential advisors are calling for the deportation of

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the world's richest man, just another day in Paradise. The

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whole thing has turned into a social media death match,

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with Trump posting on truth Social and Musk firing back

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on x. They're literally using their own platforms as weapons,

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which is either brilliant or completely unhinged, depending on your perspective.

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Even Kanye West stepped in posting Bruce please know with

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hugging emojis, because apparently what this situation needed was input

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from someone with their own history of controversial statements. Meanwhile,

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House Democrats are jumping on Musk's Epstein allegations, demanding the

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release of all the files. Representative Dan Goldman is basically

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saying I knew it, which is the political equivalent of

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I told you so, but with potentially devastating consequences. The

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really wild part is that this all started over a

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spending bill that would actually hurt Musk's companies, ending the

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seventy five hundred dollars electric vehicle tax credit that helps

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Tesla sales. But Musk said he was fine with that,

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which makes you wonder what he was really upset about.

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SpaceX competitors are having a field day, with their stock

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prices jumping as investors bet that Musk Space Company might

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lose government contracts. Ast Space Mobile and EchoStar shares rose significantly,

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proving that in politics, as in space, what goes up

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for one person often comes down for another. The whole

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situation has Trump's advisors preparing to force allies to choose,

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which sounds like the setup for the world's most expensive

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game of political red rover. And through it all, four

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astronauts are sitting on the International Space Station, probably looking

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down at Earth and wondering if they picked the right

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week to leave the planet. Because nothing says advanced civilization

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like billionaires threatening space missions over policy disagreements. Makes you

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wonder what they're planning for the weekend. I know it

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makes me wonder, because I have a feeling I'm working Saturday.

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The really fascinating part is how quickly this relationship imploded.

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Just last week, Trump was praising Musk as one of

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the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.

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Now he's threatening to cut billions in government contracts with

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Musk's companies. That's going from best man at the wedding

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to blocking each other on social media in record time.

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Musk even created a poll asking his followers if there

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should be a new political party representing the eighty percent

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in the middle, because nothing screams centrist politics like a

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billionaire who bought a social media platform to amplify his

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own voice starting his own political party. The whole thing

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reads like a political soap opera where both main characters

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forgot they're supposed to be running the country instead of

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settling scores on social media. But hey, at least we're

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getting some quality entertainment out of our tax dollars. Now.

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These Epstein files have become the political equivalent of Bigfoot footage.

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Everyone's convinced they contain earth shattering secrets, but so far

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the actual releases have been about as exciting as your

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grocery list. Remember when Attorney General Pam Bondi released Phase

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one back in February. People were expecting explosive revelations and

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instead got documents that were already public. That's like promising

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a surprise party and then showing everyone photos from last

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year's surprise party. The whole situation is fascinating in the

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most uncomfortable way. Possible. Trump and Epstein knew each other

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back in the day. They moved in the same wealthy

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soracles in New York and Florida, which, let's be honest,

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is not exactly shocking news. Rich guys in Palm Beach

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knowing other rich guys in Palm Beach is like discovering

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that people in Hollywood know other people in Hollywood or

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even partied with Ditty. Oh wait, that's a bad analogy.

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Never mind. Trump even gave that infamous two thousand and

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two interview where he called Epstein a terrific guy and

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noted that he likes beautiful women as much as I do,

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and many of them are on the younger side, which

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in hindsight reads like something you'd find in a time

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capsule labeled things that aged poorly. But now we have

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federal agents and prosecutors working overtime to comb through these files,

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trying to figure out how to release information without destroying

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innocent people's reputations, which must be a fun job sorting

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through evidence to determine who's actually connected to crimes versus

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who just happened to be at the same charity gala

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fifteen years ago. The Internet naturally has turned this into

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a treasure hunt for a client list, even though that's

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not really how this case worked. Epstein wasn't running some

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kind of membership club with a roster, so he was

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manipulating teenage girls into illegal situations. But conspiracy theorists love

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a good list, especially one that might implicate their political enemies. Meanwhile,

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Musk is out here dropping hints like he's Dan Brown

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writing a sequel to the Da Vinci Code, except instead

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of solving ancient mysteries, he's just having a very public

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meltdown with the president. Time to drop the really big

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bomb he wrote, which sounds less like explosive evidence and

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more like someone who's watched too many action movies. While

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we're here, I might as well tell you how Trump

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has brought back the travel Band, because apparently nothing says

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let's move forward as a country like dusting off the

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greatest hits from your first presidency. This time around, twelve

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countries are getting the full band treatments, while seven others

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face what we're calling heightened restrictions, which sounds like airport security,

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but for entire nations. The banned list includes Afghanistan, Me

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and Mark Chad. The Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,

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and Yemen. That's a lot of countries to put in

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time out. Trump announced this while connecting it to Sunday's

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terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, which would make perfect sense

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except for one tiny detail. The suspect is from Egypt,

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a country that's not even on the restricted list. That's

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like banning peanuts because someone had an allergic reaction to shellfish.

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The logic is a bit fuzzy, but then again, we're

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talking about policy announcements tied to social media videos. The

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administration is citing deficient screening and betting and countries that

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refuse to take back their own citizens. They're also pointing

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to visa overstate rates, which is basically saying, too many

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of your people like it here and don't want to leave, which,

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when you think about it, might be the most American

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compliment you could give a place. Afghanistan being on the

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list has really upset some people, particularly those who work

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to resettle Afghans who helped US forces during the Twenty

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Year War. There. These are people who risk their lives

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working alongside American service members and now we're basically saying

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thanks for your service, but please stay home. Haiti also

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made the list this time, which is new. The country

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is dealing with gang violence so severe that armed groups

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control eighty five percent of the capitol, So we're essentially

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telling people fleeing violence that they should probably figure out

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another option, which seems like the opposite of what America

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traditionally stands for. Iran being included isn't exactly shocking. They've

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been on the naughty list for a while now. The

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administration is calling them a state sponsor of terrorism, which

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is diplomatic speak for we really don't like you, guys.

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The other Middle Eastern countries on the list, Libya, Sudan,

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and Yemen are all dealing with civil wars in various

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forms of chaos. Sudan has an active war happening right now,

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which makes you wonder if maybe the people trying to

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leave deserve some consideration. International aid groups are not thrilled

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with OXFAM America's president saying this is about sowing division

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and vilifying communities, which is a polite way of saying

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this is means spirited and counterproductive. This whole thing is

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supposed to take effect Monday at twelve oh one am,

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giving people a few days notice this time. That's an

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improvement over twenty seventeen, when the original ban went into

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effect with virtually no warning and turned airports into absolute chaos. Students, faculty,

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business people, and tourists were either stuck on planes or

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detained at airports, which was about as American as it sounds.

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Trump is calling this a national security measure, not anti

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Muslim bias, which is the same argument he made the

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first time around. Of course, during his first campaign he

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did explicitly call for a ban on Muslims, so the

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messaging has been a bit mixed over the years. The

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Supreme Court eventually upheld a version of the original ban

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in twenty eighteen, so Trump's on firmer legal ground this time,

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which means we're probably in for less courtroom drama and

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more policy implementation. Whether people like it or not, the

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whole thing feels like a sequel nobody asked for, except

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this time they've added more countries to the cast. It's

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travel Band two Electric Boogaloo, and just like most sequels,

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it's basically the same plot with a bigger budget and

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more characters. Anyway, portions of today's show probably couldn't have

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even been made up by an Ai. Even if we tried,

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we would never have come up with the Elon thing.

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I'll be back in the morning or in five minutes

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with whatever happens next. Geesh.