This Is What the Shutdown Is Really About

Working at DOGE, Elon Musk saw how blue states, like California are running massive deficits, like the Federal Government does. Unlike the states, the Federal Government can print more money to make payments (devaluing the currency in the process).

But states have found the next best thing to money: illegal migrants, who they sign up to various social programs and to whom they nominally provide with food, shelter, daycare, schooling, Medicaid and sometimes debit cards with $10,000 – all of this, using US Taxpayer money from residents of other states via the Federal Government.

Elon says that these blue states divert a large portion of those federal funds designated for illegal migrants back to themselves and they use that money to cover their state budgets.

Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan that:

“New York and California would be bankrupt without the massive fraudulent federal payments that go to those states to pay for illegals, to create a massive financial incentive for illegals…And the reason you have this standoff is because if the hundreds of billions of dollars to create a financial incentive to have this giant magnet to attract illegals from every part of Earth to these states, if that is turned off, the illegals will leave, because they’re no longer being paid to come to the United States and stay here.”

This is why Chuck Schumer and “Chuck E. Cheese Obama” (aka Hakeem Jeffries) and the Democrats have shut down the Federal Government. Their states are bankrupt and they need to launder federal funds through illegal migrants in order to balance their budgets.

Presumably, this is what fuels the animus that New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani directs towards Donald Trump: He’s a hired gun to protect the New York City racket that launders federal taxpayer money through social programs for illegal migrants, siphoning off a large portion of those funds to balance the city budget.

Mamdani might have other motives, like destroying white/racist New York and America by accelerating a Cloward-Piven-style societal collapse, in order to “seize the mean of production” and to implement full-blown Communism. Time will tell.

If his life purpose truly were about improving the lives of the poor, there are many more people to help in his native Uganda or in his ancestral India but the problem with those other places is that they don’t have as many rich people to shake down, to say nothing of a comparatively robust Middle Class whose tax dollars can be fleeced via his family’s multi-generational grift.

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TRANSCRIPT

Elon Musk: That’s what was happening. They were also giving out, like debit cards with $10,000. So it’s not just about medical care. The Democrats mention “medical care” because they’re trying to prey on people’s empathy as much as possible. And then they imagine, “Oh, wow, somebody has a desperately-needed medical procedure. And shouldn’t we maybe do, you know, take care of them in that regard?”

But what they do is they divert the Medicaid funds and turn it into a slush fund for the states that goes well beyond emergency medical care.

New York and California would be bankrupt without the massive fraudulent federal payments that go to those states to pay for illegals, to create a massive financial incentive for illegals.

Joe Rogan: How would they be bankrupt because of that?

Elon Musk: They wouldn’t be able to balance the state budgets and they can’t issue currency, like the Federal Reserve can.

Joe Rogan: And so their ability to balance the budget is dependent upon illegals getting funding?

Elon Musk: The scam level here is so staggering. So there are hundreds of billions of dollars of transfer payments from the federal government to the states. Those transfer payments, the states self-report what those transfer payment numbers should be.

So, California and New York and Illinois lie like crazy and say that these are all legitimate payments. Well, these days, I think they’re even admitting that they literally want hundreds of billions of dollars for illegals. But for a while there, they were trying to deny it.

So you get these transfer payments for every government program you can possibly think of. And these are self-reported by the state. And, at least historically, there was no enforcement of California, New York, Illinois, and other states.

When they would lie, there was no actual enforcement to say like, “Hey, you’re lying. These payments are fraudulent.”

Now, under the Trump administration, the Trump administration does not want to send hundreds of billions of dollars of fraudulent payments to the states.

And the reason you have this standoff is because if the hundreds of billions of dollars to create a financial incentive to have this giant magnet to attract illegals from every part of Earth to these states, if that is turned off, the illegals will leave, because they’re no longer being paid to come to the United States and stay here.

Joe Rogan: Wow.

And then, they will lose a lot of voters. The Democratic Party will lose a lot of voters.

Joe Rogan: And they would have a very difficult job if this is kicked out of reintroducing it into a new bill.

Elon Musk: Yes.

Joe Rogan: Especially, once things start normalizing.

Elon Musk: Yes. So, in a nutshell, the Democratic Party wants to destroy democracy by importing voters. And the Republican Party disagrees with that.

Joe Rogan: And the ruse is that if you don’t accept what they’re doing, then you’re a “threat to democracy”.

Elon Musk: Yes.

Joe Rogan: As they try to destroy democracy.

Elon Musk: Yes.

Joe Rogan: By importing voters.

Elon Musk: That is literally what they’re doing.

Joe Rogan: And incentivizing people to only vote for them and overwhelming the system.

Elon Musk: Yes. And by the way, it’s a strategy, that if allowed to work, would work. And in fact, has worked. California is supermajority Democrat.

Joe Rogan: Yeah.

Elon Musk: And there’s so much gerrymandering that occurs, it’s crazy.