California Votes to CANCEL SpaceX...Over Musk's TWEETS!
While the rest of the world is astonished over the SpaceX "Super Heavy" booster rocket caught by "chopsticks" over the weekend, California bureaucrats are unimpressed. The company is fine, they admit, but the California Coastal Commission voted "NO" to increased SpaceX launches from their state because of...CEO Elon Musk's Tweets! Also today...California brings back mask mandates because...science! Finally, a new Gallup poll confirms what we already know: US confidence in the mainstream media continues to plunge.
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well, doing well.
A little excitement over the weekend.
Yeah.
Saw some fantastic pictures, and I'm not much into missiles and satellites at all, but there was a neat little trick.
I was astounded, as the world was astounded at the technology involved.
So that was great.
And you're, of course, talking about Musk and his ability to send up satellites.
But anyway, not everybody agrees with us, even we who are cautious about giving any high praise to people who do work with the government for various reasons.
But there's a lot of people who have to go and pick at them.
But are you surprised that those people picking at them happen to be civilians in California?
Yeah, yeah, not surprising at all.
Civilians who aren't very civil.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's a crazy thing.
You know, there are good things and bad things about Musk.
There are things you may not like about him.
He likes Trump.
Maybe you don't like Trump.
But nevertheless, when you watch what happened, in fact, why don't we watch this?
This is from, this is a short clip.
Now, before you play it, I just want to read what this gentleman says.
I think this fellow is a scientist, but I think he captures the sentiment.
If we can put that tweet that we're going to watch, if we can put that up.
Yeah, so this gentleman says, this is insane.
SpaceX sent a skyscraper-sized rocket to the edge of space and then caught it using mechanical chopsticks and made it look easy.
Congratulations, Elon Musk and the team.
You're making the future literally look like the future.
So let's full screen and watch this.
This is just unbelievable, just incredible to see that technology.
You know, it's something.
And the thing that struck me, Dr. Paul, about this is us, we were watching it, my family was watching it.
And I looked in the control room and all this and that, and the people were going crazy, the scientists.
But the thing that struck me is they were all young people.
Most of them were very, very young engineers.
And, you know, it sort of reminds you of the 60s when that young generation came, the engineers and took us into space.
You know, when I was in the Congress, they had one of those.
And I think the people coming back landed in California, but then they had to come over.
Oh, I guess the mechanics are getting over here.
But when they got to NASA, NASA was in history.
And that was one of those things.
It was really exciting to see how many people in there because they were all, it looks like it took teamwork.
That's why it's impressive.
So you have to have a leader, you have to have an idea, and then you have to have a purpose.
Yeah, good, young, energetic people.
So anyway, we watched the good part.
Now the dumb part.
Let's go to this because he has to launch a bunch of test missiles out of California.
He does, no, he's not perfect.
We're not praising Elon Musk.
He's a military contractor, you know.
But nevertheless, if you go to that first clip, he's got to test some missiles out of California, Vandenberg Air Force Base.
He does that testing for the government.
Don't necessarily love that.
But the fact of the matter is he was approved, I guess, for 36 of them.
He appealed to do an additional few to make it up to 50.
The California Coastal Commission, they said, no way, Jose, and this is from Politico, California officials cite Elon Musk's politics in rejecting SpaceX launches.
That's got to be the craziest story of the day.
No, I guess it can't be a complete surprise and a complete surprise that it's in California.
But it's sort of sad.
Let's say they're successful, which nobody really believes they're going to be as successful.
Let's hope.
Just think of the expense of all that, you know.
Anyway, sad story.
Good story and sad story.
But it does raise a question in my mind, you know, about technology.
I love to think about it because technology has two purposes and two goals in essence because it can be used for war-mongering and peaceful means, you know, just nuclear power.
Just think of how nuclear power could be a blessing or it could be, you know, threatening and it has the atomic bomb being so much threat already that I think that's part of where life is is you know, you know, that things can be used for good and evil.
And this was this was a good and evil on a era.
One, this total success, then the evil coming in.
Oh, we don't like these guys.
Let's kick them out.
Let's look at how goofy these people are.
Let's go to that next clip.
This is from the article.
And this is their complaint, okay?
It's not whether he can launch a rocket, whether he...
No, it's not that.
This is a quote from Commissioner Gretchen Newsome.
I wonder if she's any relation to the governor.
Here's what she said at their meeting in San Diego.
She said, Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free star-like access to the internet.
This is what Gretchen is upset about.
So she's mad that he criticized FEMA for FEMA's obvious failures in Helene and Milton.
That's what made her mad.
Not that his missiles are no good.
So they make her governor.
Yeah, maybe they will.
She also said that, well, it also said agencies, commissioners appointed by the governor legislative leaders voted 6-4 to reject the Air Force's plan over concerns that SpaceX launches would be considered, et cetera, et cetera.
So I'm going to the next one now.
This is another commissioner, Cheryl Hart, or Carl.
I can't tell how they spell their name.
Carl Hart, whatever.
He said, I really appreciate the work of the Space Force, but we're dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively ejected himself into the presidential race.
And he's managed a company in the way just described by Commissioner Newsom that I find to be very disturbing.
Again, it's about his political views.
He happens to like Trump.
Therefore, he can't launch his rockets.
You know, when this evidence that everybody was turning against Trump and they hated Trump, I said it started really at the beginning of jealousy.
And that statement there sounds like they're just jealous of this guy, you know, because of his success.
And it's turned into, of course, the relationship has turned into hatred that probably has never existed before in a presidential campaign.
Yeah.
Well, Conroe 2020 sent us a couple of bucks and said, well, technically, California is within their rights to make the decision as a state.
Masked Love and Hate00:04:01
That's true, that's fine.
But our thing is making everything about politics.
It's just social insanity, like you say, the woke virus.
But so anyway, Musk is going to strike back.
If you go to the next one, he says he's going to sue the commission.
And he's doing it rightly, I think.
He's suing them for citing his political rhetoric in its decision on Starlink.
If you go to the next one, here's what he says.
He's going to sue them.
Musk tweeted in response to Carr or Cher, whatever the name is.
Incredibly inappropriate, Musk tweeted.
What I post on this platform has nothing to do with the Coastal Commission in California.
I'm filing suit against them on Monday for violating the First Amendment.
So it doesn't hurt when you're rich and you can file a lawsuit, but in this case, he's right because he has the financial means to do something to protect the First Amendment.
I think that's a positive thing.
He has served a purpose in social media, too.
Yeah, he has.
He's opened it up.
So anyway, this is going to be like bagging on California Day.
And I'm a California.
I grew up in Southern California.
Body surfing down there.
It's not the same state, but we're going to attack California today.
And if you go to the next one, because of something crazy, you sent this over this morning.
I knew you were going to send it when I got up.
I knew I was going to see that in my inbox.
This is from the Hedge, but it's via Epoch Times.
Mask mandates set to return in several California areas.
I don't know.
What are you going to say about that, Dr. Paul?
Madness and not good science.
You know, boy, it's hard to believe.
Now, if you read it, you say, oh, well, this might not go anyway.
But the fact that it gets out there is an idea.
And it's relatively small compared to what happened before.
But that doesn't mean it won't change.
But the principle is still out there, and they're still bold enough.
They have no shame about what they do.
To get all that, they're in denial, of course.
They call it all a lie that people actually died from the treatment that the government gave to people with COVID.
So that is a big deal.
And I think that to even hint at this again, it should be embarrassing.
But it's like, oh, you mean you're a Danish Gansman?
No, I wore a lot of masks in my day for surgery when I was in the operating room, you know, and that was commonplace.
But this is not appropriate when you talk about, of course, they're starting off, you know, easy, but then they'll add and they'll be, oh, some city's going to say, oh, boy, that city's getting ahead of.
They're the leaders of all this stuff.
So we better do that too.
It may be contagious.
Yeah, contagious is a good word for it.
No, you're right.
They're starting out by saying, well, healthcare workers, I guess they're the easiest ones to pick on.
And as you point out, there is a time where you wear a mask because when you're in surgery, you don't want stuff to fall into the open wound.
Nobody wants that to happen.
But, you know, you're right.
That's probably an inroads.
If you can force these people to do it, then you'll push a little more.
That's how they did it in the first place.
Yeah, there's credibility with this.
They go, oh, they must know.
Well, if they wear them, we want to wear them too.
And yet, just think of the stupidities that occurred during COVID.
When you see one individual out for a walk or a jog on a beach, and he's wearing a mask.
That's insane.
We're driving alone.
It was a madness.
And we can laugh.
And if they had just done that to themselves, that would be fine.
You can wear it all day if you want.
But what they tried to do to the rest of the people is what should never be forgiven.
So anyway, we're going to finish up with a little media stuff.
We love media stuff.
We love polls.
So it's a twofer for us.
Let's go ahead and put this next one on.
Gallup, which I think is a pretty credible company, in my opinion.
They've had to be.
They've been around forever.
Go to the next one.
I'm going to skip that one.
Loss Of Trust In Media00:05:14
This just came out, I think, yesterday, Dr. Paul, a new poll on America's attitudes toward a lot of things, but in here, mostly the media.
So Americans' trust in media remains at trend low.
Trust in political and civil institutions, highest for local and state governments.
Go to the next one now.
This is the sort of the top line number here.
For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media, 36%, than trust it a great deal or even a fair amount.
And another 33% express not very much confidence.
So, Dr. Paul, over two-thirds of Americans have absolutely zero trust or own maybe a little bit of trust in the media.
Right.
That's good.
That's a step in the right direction.
But reversing the trends of 70, 80 years of how there was an erosion of our beliefs in the principles of liberty or the principles in the Constitution.
I mean, it's a long way to go, you know, to erase all that.
And it's probably a generational thing.
But then again, the Marxists think that all we have to do is save chaos and out of the chaos.
We're going to give them a new issue.
Well, we are into the chaos, and we need to be very busy to explain the chaos, where it came from, and how it can be handled.
But the politicians, as far as I'm concerned, aren't doing that because it's bipartisan support for so much of the foreign policy, even though they'll use a little bit of rhetoric that might think, oh, oh, no, we're not going to start another war ever.
And the whole thing is, is the Republicans, I think they're the party that's supposed to spend less money, but all they talk about is more, a Republican program is different than a Democrat program.
So they're for it.
But it's all the thing.
Nobody's talked about deficits or anything else.
So it's, I think there's a lot of things that this, if you do these pollings in detail, they're not addressing the subject.
You know, like the economy is the big deal, and the debt is the big deal.
The boards are the big deal.
But they don't really have serious debates over it.
Yeah, the media doesn't have any debates over it to tell you what to think.
Yeah.
Well, let's look at this chart.
It's a good chart to watch because it shows over time Americans' trust in the media.
And if you go to the green line, that is people who had a great deal or fair amount of trust.
And that over in the mid-70s was at 70%.
70% of media in the 70s, Dr. Paul.
That's the era of late Cronkite and all these guys.
70% of people trusted them.
And now you go down to 2024, that follow that green line down, it's the lowest.
It's the absolute lowest level of trust.
Now you look at the blue line, which is they don't trust them very much at all.
That was down there pretty low, 20 to 30, and now it's up there at 33.
And if you look at the dotted line, not very much, or no, none at all is that one.
That is actually the winner.
They came from back in 70, 76.
It was less, it was 5%.
Five people in 100 didn't trust the media.
And now it's up to 36 in 100 who do not trust the media whatsoever.
If they ever interpret things to say, do you trust your money, your dollar?
Well, what does that mean?
Are you unhappy with the grocery bills?
Oh, yeah.
Well, that distrust is out there.
The connection hasn't been made.
That's the problem because people know they're hurting.
But unfortunately, what is prevailing is that when you have trouble, the trouble is going to take care of us.
Never saying, did the government ever give us the problem?
The thing about this loss of trust in the media, the mainstream media.
So rather than do some self-reflection, which is looking at this chart, you think that look at CNN's numbers.
Look at how nobody watches these networks anymore.
You'd think that they would sit down in a boardroom and say, well, gosh, why don't people trust us?
What are we doing wrong?
I mean, any other business, you know, say you and I had a taco stand.
Nobody was buying our tacos.
We'd say, why is nobody buying our tacos?
They don't do that.
But you think if they stopped and they reflected, why don't they trust us?
They might, you know, they might come to some conclusions.
Well, they get out of the responsibility because it's the people's fault.
They're dumb.
They're dumb, yeah.
We try to tell them again.
You know, I tell this story about sitting beside a congressman and he was voting against something he believed in.
I said, why are you going to do that?
He said, oh, the people won't understand.
You know, the people are dumb.
We have to take care of the people because they're dumb.
Take care of them.
Safety.
I'm sure that's how the media feels too.
Peace in the world.
So it's not just a momentary lapse in good judgment.
It's ingrained in a system that's been created for many, many decades.
And I, of course, date it back all the way back to the progressive era when we became less progressive.
Why People Matter00:06:22
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, you know, the other thing is, instead of reflecting on it, why people aren't, why do we don't want to watch CNN anymore?
What they do is they get together and they get angry and say, we've got to cancel.
So they collude with government, this latest attack on RT, for example.
RT is basically Americans out there saying things that are a bit dissident, right?
We don't agree with the mainstream foreign policy.
So what do they do?
They try to cancel it.
Instead of trying to say, why do people want to hear differing views?
No, we've got to cancel those views.
The same thing with TikTok and Twitter.
We've got to cancel these.
We've got to censor these.
We can't let people have views that are different than the approved views.
You know, it's almost epidemic, this systematic and expanding acceptance of demolishing the First Amendment.
It's just hard to believe.
It's sort of like how all of a sudden the many, many economists that always would argue the case that, you know, protectionism isn't exactly the best way to get things done.
They go along and they accept this stuff, and people's attitudes has to change.
Who knows what?
Well, people at least are voting with their feet.
They're not watching these shows anymore.
So that's good news.
That's right.
You know, the other, do you have another thing here?
No, no, no.
Well, I'm going to close out.
Okay, I want to mention one thing that we talked a little bit about this morning because it was an outrage.
And that is, you could tell me why people do things like that.
I'm talking about the candidate on the Democratic side for president.
I can't remember her name.
Exactly.
But she came up, and I say on this, she's very logical.
You know, there's a problem.
They've discovered it.
They did a polling.
And black men don't like her as well as they're supposed to.
So they have to do something.
So she says there's a problem.
What do you do?
The government takes care of it.
And so she stops right there, says, why don't I send them all a check for 20 grand?
And the absurdity of it all that they do that.
And, you know, the odds of that happening, I hope, are slim to none.
But the whole thing is that a candidate for the president of the United States is proposing.
But they've done this all along.
I mean, they haven't been quite so blunt and ridiculous.
Oh, 20, I wonder how that'll go over.
Because they do that by saying, well, if you owe $20,000 to government, just forget about it.
They've already done this with student loans and everything else.
So they don't have a good, and that's pretty much, too often it's bipartisan, too.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, Dr. Paul, if you and I said we identify as women, nobody would bat an eye.
So I suggest you and I should identify as black men to get some of that Kamala money.
Oh, yeah, even if you're in a play and you face yourself, you're in big trouble, huh?
Yeah, well, I'll do it for the money.
I identify as that.
It's funny, though, you know, talking about that.
Remember, a couple days ago, Obama came out and he was lecturing black men.
Hey, what's wrong with you, brothers?
Why aren't you supporting?
And it had such a backlash.
They're not on the reservation that Obama wants them to be on.
And they made so many TikTok videos saying, don't tell me what to vote for, who to vote for.
Don't tell me what to believe just because of the color of my skin.
That was pretty amazing.
That was pretty remarkable.
No, it's amazing, but we still believe we're making progress.
More and more people are at least looking.
There has to be an option.
And when you see a poll like this, this is long-term and it's a trend.
And if this trend continues, the authoritarians could get into trouble.
Maybe they'll have to cave in and recognize the First Amendment does have some merit.
And maybe a free market does produce better wealth.
And maybe a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Maybe that's the road to peace.
Who knows?
That's the whole thing.
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Very good.
And I too want to show my appreciation for our viewers that tune in regularly and those who have just come on.
But of course, the effort is only going to be successful if there is a spread by word of mouth because we do have a platform.
And yesterday we had a tremendous success for one of our programs.
It caught the attention of a lot of people and we like that.
And we believe sincerely that we work for the goal of seeking the truth of things.
And sometimes it's not always that popular and people frown on it.
But I still am a person that believes that basically most Americans are decent people.
And sometimes when the government, why do you have that people ask, well, yeah, but why are we having all these programs?
Well, the people who hate liberty are the ones who love government and they spend more money and energy and they see the benefits because they become lobbyists and they get the special interest.
They're just dividing up the loot among themselves.
But eventually a country like that gets poor and they can't do it much longer and there has to be a change in policy and we're in the middle of that change in policy for monetary policy.
There is an evolution going on in our foreign policy and I think that is all good.
The polls are starting to show that people are sick and tired of the sentiment about how government treats the people and I think it's all good.
So keep up the good work, spread our message for peace and prosperity.
I think that will help solve the problems of the world.